Article: Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians

For almost half a century, Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has enjoyed an enviable reputation as the most influential business historian in the world. Chandlerian business history is a mainstay of the "new" institutionalism that John Higham discerned over four decades ago in a justly admired survey of American historical writing; in addition, it has long been a cornerstone of the "organizational synthesis" that Louis Galambos championed in three widely discussed essays.1 Even in history departments that have shifted their primary focus from politics and economics to society and culture, Chandler remains required reading.2 Indeed, Chandler's The Visible Hand (1977) may well be the only book in ...

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