Business History back issues from April 2004:
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 ...
Alan G. Jamieson, Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... ALAN G. JAMIESON, Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 239; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0 85989 728 1, 37.50 [pounds sterling]). Although British maritime history has undergone a ...
Gerhard Adelmann, Die Baumwollgewerbe Nordwestdeutschlands und der Westlichen Nachbarlander beim Ubergang von der Vorindustriellen zur Fruhindustriellen Zeit 1750-1815: Verflechtung und Regionale Differenzierung.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... GERHARD ADELMANN, Die Baumwollgewerbe Nordwestdeutschlands und der Westlichen Nachbarlander beim Ubergang von der Vorindustriellen zur Fruhindustriellen Zeit 1750-1815: Verflechtung und Regionale Differenzierung. Beitrage zur Unternehmensgeschichte vol.11 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, ...
Sandra Markus, Bilanzieren und Sinn stiften.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... SANDRA MARKUS, Bilanzieren und Sinn stiften. Erinnerungen yon Unternehmern im 20. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2002. Pp.385. H/back ISBN 3 515 08055 4, 70.00 [euro]). At the centre of Sandra Markus's book stands the autobiographical text of entrepreneurs, not the ...
Harold James and Jakob Tanner (eds.), Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... HAROLD JAMES and JAKOB TANNER (eds.), Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe (Aldershot Ashgate, 2002. Pp.xv + 283; figures. ISBN 0 7546 0077 7, 42.50 [pound sterling]). Enterprise in the Period of Fascism is a collection of essays originally presented at the Society for ...
Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide: the SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... MICHAEL THAD ALLEN, The Business of Genocide.: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp.xii + 377; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2677 4, 31.50 [pound sterling]). Michael Allen addresses what is surely one of the ...
Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... BRUCE H. MANN, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp.viii + 344. ISBN 0 674 00902 9, $29.95/19.95 [pound sterling]). The past decade has seen an efflorescence of scholarship not to mention the ...
Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... JONATHAN A. GLICKSTEIN, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States (Charlottesville, VA, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp.x + 361. ISBN 0 8139 2115 5, $39.50). This book addresses important ...
Howard M. Wachtel, Street of Dreams--Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... HOWARD M. WACHTEL, Street of Dreams--Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. Pp.xv + 239; illus. H/back ISBN 0 7453 1925 4,19.99 [pound sterling). Wall Street was so christened by the British in 1685 but the ...
Mansel Blackford, A History of Small Business in America.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... MANSEL BLACKFORD, A History of Small Business in America (Chapel University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp.xii + 216. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2780 0, 34.50 [pound sterling]; p/back ISBN 0 8078 5453 0, 14.50 [pound sterling]). Looking to enhance your American business history ...
Steven High, Industrial Sunset: the Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... STEVEN HIGH, Industrial Sunset. The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 c. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp.xi + 306; illus.; maps; charts. H/back ISBN 0 8020 3738 0, C$55.00; p/back ISBN 0 8020 8528 8, C$27.95). In this somewhat grandiosely titled ...
Susan Eleanor Hirsch, After the Strike: a Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... SUSAN ELEANOR HIRSCH, After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp.x + 292; illus. H/back ISBN 0 252 02791 4, $44.95). The railroads hold a special place in the collective imagination--such as it is--of historians ...
David Witwer, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... DAVID WITWER, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp.viii + 298. ISBN 0 252 02825 2, $39.95). In the middle of the twentieth century, organised labour was a potent force in the American economy. By the end of the ...
Janet Hunter, Women and the Labour market in Japan's Industrializing Economy: the Textile Industry before the Pacific War (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... Janet Hunter, Women and the Labour market in Japan's industrializing Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. iiiv + 326; illus. H/back ISBN 0 415 29731 1, 55.00 [pounds sterling]). The importance of the textile ...
Theo Balderston (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... THEO BALDERSTON (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii + 226. H/back ISBN 0 333 73864 0, 55.00 [pounds sterling]). This excellent book concerns the apparent deflationary effect of the Gold Standard in the ...
Makoto Kasuya (ed.), Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... MAKOTO KASUYA (ed.), Coping with Crisis." International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 235. H/back ISBN 0 19 925931 3, 40.00 [pounds sterling]). This edited volume is a collection of papers presented at the ...
Nigel Harris, The return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalization, the State and War (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... NIGEL HARRIS, The return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalization, the State and War (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003. Pp. xi + 292. H/back ISBN 1 86064 786 3, 24.50 [pounds sterling]) The vast growth of capital flows in the closing two decades of the twentieth century prompted the ...
H. Peter Gray (ed.), Extending the Eclectic Paradigm in International Business (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... H. PETER GRAY (ed.), Extending the Eclectic Paradigm in International Business (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003, Pp.xii + 271; figures; tables; map. H/back ISBN 1 84064 888 0 59.95 [pounds sterling]). John Dunning held a visiting professorship in international business at ...
B. R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edn. 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... B. R. MITCHELL, International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edn. 2003.Pp.xix + 1113. H/back ISBN 0 333 99412 4, 250.00 [pounds sterling]). Historians of comparative economic development have since ...
Mike Parsons and MARY B. ROSE, Invisible on EverestL Innovation and the Gear Makers (Philadelphia: Northern Liberties Press 2003.(book review )(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... MIKE PARSONS and MARY B. ROSE, Invisible on Everest; Innovation and the Gear Makers (Philadelphia: Northern Liberties Press 2003. Pp.xiii + 292; illus. ISBN 0 9704143 5 8, 24.99 [pounds sterling]/$36.00). Invisible on Everest is the story of passionate and persistent endeavours ...
Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).(book review )(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp.xiii + 297. H/back ISBN 1 4039 1191 6, 49.50 [pounds sterling]; p/back ISBN 1 4039 0584 3, 16.99 [pounds sterling]). For most Ph.D. students, ...
Anshuman Prasad (ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organisational Analysis. A Critical Engagement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... ANSHUMAN PRASAD (ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organisational Analysis. A Critical Engagement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp.xv + 309. H/back ISBN 0 312 29495 0, 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Business historians and management scholars who are caught up in the academic ...
Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura (eds.), The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).(book review)(Book Review)
Apr 01, 2004; ... WOLFGANG STREECK and KOZO YAMAMURA (eds.), The Origins of Nonliberal 4Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 200l. Pp.xii + 261. ISBN 0 8014 3817 5, 29.50 [pounds sterling]). During much of the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists ...