Recently added articles from Business History:
American machinery and European footwear: technology transfer and international trade, 1860-1939.(footwear industry)
Apr 01, 2004; ... The footwear industry underwent a tremendous growth in the United States during the nineteenth century. The increase in production was noted mainly on the home market but was also accompanied, as from around 1880, by a heightened presence of American footwear in foreign markets. ...
Mergers and the evolution of patterns of corporate ownership and control: the British experience.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... Throughout the twentieth century, the United Kingdom experienced a series of 'merger waves' which helped to foster what Leslie Hannah characterised in his 1976 book as 'The Rise of the Corporate Economy'.(1) Hannah, in this book and in other work he published in the 1970s, (2) examined ...
Robert C.B. Miller, Railways.com: Parallels between the Early British Railways and the ICT revolution.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... ROBERT C.B. MILLER, Railways.com: Parallels between the Early British Railways and the ICT Revolution (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2003. Pp. 196. ISBN 0 255 36534 9, 12.50 [pounds sterling]). This is an interesting and stimulating book with a very witty title. The ...
Simon Cordery, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... SIMON CORDERY, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003. Pp. 248. H/back ISBN 0 3339 90315, 45.00 [pound sterling]). It is over 40 years since P.H.J.H. Gosden published the last comprehensive study of friendly societies. Not many historical subjects of ...
John Armstrong, John M. Aldridge, Grahame Boyes, Gordon Mustoe and Richard A. Story (eds.), Companion to British Road Haulage History.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... JOHN ARMSTRONG, JOHN M. ALDRIDGE, GRAHAME BOYES, GORDON MUSTOE and RICHARD A. STORY (eds.), Companion to British Road Haulage History (London: Science Museum, 2003. Pp. 544 (incl. illus); illus. H/back ISBN 1 900747 46 4, 39.50 [pounds sterling]). This companion emulates the ...