Business History Review

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Volume 71, issue 4, 1997

Private Banking in Antebellum Virginia: Thomas Branch & Sons of Petersburg pp. 513-542

Howard Bodenhorn

The National Recovery Administration and the Rubber Tire Industry, 1933–1935 pp. 543-568

Pamela Pennock

The Reichskuratorium für Wirtschaftlichkeit: Fordism and Organized Capitalism in Germany, 1918–1945 pp. 569-602

J. Ronald Shearer

Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700–1850. Edited by Conrad Edick Wright and Katheryn P. Viens · Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xiv + 450 pp. Photographs, notes, maps, tables, illustrations, figures, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0934909709 pp. 607-611

Sven Beckert

Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America. By Judy Hilkey · Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ix + 210 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0807823538; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0807846589 pp. 611-613

Walter A. Friedman

Wall Street: A History. By Charles R. Geisst · New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 404 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $30.00. ISBN 0195115120 pp. 613-614

Edwin J. Perkins

A Social History of American Technology. By Ruth Schwartz Cowan · New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 342 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0195046056 pp. 614-617

Regina Blaszczyk

Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950. By James P. Kraft · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. x + 225 pp. Appendices, notes, sources, photographs, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0801850894 pp. 617-619

Marc Jeffrey Stern

The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System. By Robert CunninghamIII and Robert M. CunninghamJr. · DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xiii + 313 pp. Photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.00. ISBN 0875802249 pp. 619-621

Kirk Jeffrey

WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926–78. By Nathan Godfried · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xix + 390pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0252065921 pp. 621-622

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

The World According to Hollywood, 1918–1939. By Ruth Vasey · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xv + 299 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, works cited, and index. Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0299151948 pp. 623-624

James P. Kraft

Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World. By Joseph Turow · Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv + 242 pp. Notes and index. $22.50. ISBN 0226817490 pp. 625-626

David Paull Nickles

Concorde and the Americans: International Politics of the Supersonic Transport. By Kenneth Owen · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xvi + 232 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 1560987367 pp. 627-629

Jacob Vander Meulen

The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945. By Thomas F. O'Brien · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 356 pp. Maps, photographs, sources, and index. $52.95. ISBN 0521550157 pp. 629-632

Helen Shapiro

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America. By Gary Bryan Magee · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 293 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521581974 pp. 632-633

Kevin Whitston

Industry and Air Power: The Expansion of British Aircraft Production, 1935–41. By Sebastian Ritchie · London: Frank Cass, 1997. xvi + 283 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index of aircraft and aero-engines, and general index. $49.50. ISBN 0714647241 pp. 634-636

Peter Botticelli

European Enterprise: Strategies of Adaptation and Renewal in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Margarita Dritsas and Terry Gourvish · Athens, Greece: Trochalia Publications, 1997. 310 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. ISBN 9607809025 pp. 636-637

Harm G. Schröter

Rationalisierung und Industriearbeit: Arbeitsmarkt, Management, Arbeiterschaft im Siemens Konzern, 1900–1939. By Heidrun Homburg · Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1991. xxiii + 806 pp. Notes, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. ISBN 3775903291 pp. 638-640

J. Ronald Shearer

Les Deux Révolutions Industrielles du XXe Siècle. By François Caron · Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1997. 525 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2226094059 pp. 640-641

John Nye

The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century. By W. G. Huff · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Paperback, 1997. xxi + 472 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, appendix tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 052137037X; paper, $24.95. ISBN 0521629446 pp. 642-643

A. J. H. Latham

Volume 71, issue 3, 1997

Patents Legislation and German FDI in the British Chemical Industry before 1914 pp. 351-380

Antje Hagen

Paternalism and Pink Collars: Gender and Federal Employee Relations, 1941–50 pp. 381-416

Margaret C. Rung

“Business Without a Boss”: The Columbia Conserve Company and Workers' Control, 1917–1943 pp. 417-443

Robert Bussel

Industrial Home Work of the Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham, Massachusetts, 1912–1935 pp. 444-470

Gloria Vollmers

Federal Taxation in America: A Short History. By W. Elliot Brownlee · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 190 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-521-56265-1; paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-521-65586-3. - Funding the Modern American State, 1941–1995: The Rise and Fall of Easy Finance. Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 467 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-55240-0 pp. 474-478

Richard H. K. Vietor

BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation: 1870–1995. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr · Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1997. x + 507 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-8142-0696-4 pp. 478-479

John K. Smith

The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860–1930. By Wendy Gamber · Champaign: The University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiii + 300 pp. Tables, photographs, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02298-X; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06601-4 pp. 480-483

Rowena Olegario

Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy. By David A. Moss · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xi + 350 pp. Bibliography and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-81502-5 pp. 484-486

Donald T. Critchlow

American Housing Production, 1880–2000: A Concise History. By Mason C. Doan · Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996. xvi + 203 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, statistical appendix, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-7618-0587-7 pp. 487-488

William R. Childs

The Motel in America. By John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, and Jefferson S. Rogers · Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv + 340 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95. 0-8018-5384-4 pp. 488-490

Tom Hanchett

Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939. By Mark Aldrich · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xx + 415 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, appendices, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-5405-9 pp. 490-492

Sara E. Wermiel

Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935. By Claudia Clark · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 289 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2331-7 pp. 492-494

Marc Jeffrey Stern

Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire. By Michael Huberman · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii + 222 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-56151-5 pp. 494-496

Robert Hall

Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914–1939. By Laura Lee Downs · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xiv + 329 pp. Photographs, bibliography and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3015-1 pp. 496-498

Christopher Johnson

Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America. By Stuart D. Brandes · Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 371 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8131-2020-9 pp. 499-500

K. Austin Kerr

La Prima Ferrovia fra Venezia e Milano: Storia della Imperial-Regia Privilegiata Strada Ferrata Ferdinandea Lombardo-Veneta (1835–1852). By Adolfo Bernardello · Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed Arti, 1996. xv + 553 pp. Illustration, tables, charts, figures, maps, and appendix tables, notes, name and geographical place indexes. Lire 65,000. ISBN 88-86166-27-3 pp. 501-504

Chiara Falasca

The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt · New York: Routledge, 1995. xi + 296 pp. Notes, further reading, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-11882-4 pp. 504-507

Jeffrey R. Fear

Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan. By Dennis L. McNamara · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvii + 206 pp. Tables, notes and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-8014-3100-X pp. 507-509

Takeshi Abe

Le Groupe Mitsubishi (1870–1990): Du Zaibatsu Au Keiretsu. By Claude Hamon · Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 1995. 469 pp. 250 FF. ISBN 2-7384-3036-8 pp. 509-511

Jun Sakudo

Volume 71, issue 2, 1997

Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s, The Visible Hand after Twenty Years pp. 151-200

Richard R. John

The Decline of Declinism pp. 201-206

David Edgerton

The Reception of Scientific Management by British Engineers, 1890–1914 pp. 207-229

Kevin Whitston

Competence or Omniscience? Assessing Entrepreneurship in the Victorian and Edwardian British Paper Industry pp. 230-259

Gary Magee

The British Engineering Press during the Second Industrial Revolution: Responses to Corporate Capitalism pp. 260-286

Peter Botticelli

Global Perspectives on Modern Business pp. 287-290

Louis Galambos

Global Perspectives and British Paradoxes pp. 291-298

Geoffrey Jones

The Development of Modern Business in Japan pp. 299-308

Etsuo Abe

Reflections on Global Business and Modern Italian Enterprise by a Stubborn “Chandlerian” pp. 309-318

Franco Amatori

The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. ByWilliam J. Novack · Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0–8078–2292–2; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0–8078–4611–2 pp. 323-325

Herbert Hovenkamp

The Man Who Found the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of Western Railroads. BySaul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff · East Lansing: Michigan University Press, 1996. xiv + 257 pp. Notes, bibliography, index and maps. $34.95. ISBN 0–87013–414–0 pp. 325-327

Maury Klein

Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago. ByCarol Willis · New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995. 217 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1–56898-070–6; paper, $24.95, ISBN 1–56898–044–2 pp. 327-329

Thomas J. Misa

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. ByChristopher C. Sellers · Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 331 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0–8078–2314–7 pp. 329-331

Christian Warren

The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska. ByClark C. Spence · Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 328 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0–2520–2218–1 pp. 331-333

Liston E. Leyendecker

The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917–1918. ByGeorge H. Nash · New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. xiii + 656 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0–393–03841–6 pp. 333-335

Brian H. Balogh

Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. ByRonald C. Tobey · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 334 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20421–2 pp. 335-337

Howard P. Segal

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. ByDavid Hackett Fischer · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 536 pp. Figures, bibliographical references and index. $30.00. ISBN 0–1950–5377–X pp. 337-339

Wyatt Wells

The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England. ByRichard Grassby · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxx + 615 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $74.95. ISBN 0–521–43450–5 pp. 340-341

Henry Horwitz

History of Pedlars in Europe. ByLaurence Fontaine (translated by Vicki Whittaker) · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. 280 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0–8223–1786–9; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0–8223– 1794–X pp. 342-343

Walter Friedman

Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. ByJeffery M. Paige · Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997. xvii + 436 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0–674–13648–9 pp. 344-345

Timothy J. Henderson

Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy, 1975–1993. ByScott Callon · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xv + 240 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50. ISBN 0–8047–2505–5 pp. 346-348

Jeffrey R. Bernstein

Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. ByNorio Tamaki · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 311 pp. Maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95. ISBN 0–521–49676–4 pp. 348-350

W. Miles Fletcher

Volume 71, issue 1, 1997

Business Failure, Judicial Intervention, and Financial Innovation: Restructuring U.S. Railroads in the Nineteenth Century pp. 1-40

Peter Tufano

Exporting the “Gospel of Productivity”: United States Technical Assistance and British Industry 1945–1960 pp. 41-81

Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlimon

The Price of Air Power: Technological Change, Industrial Policy, and Military Aircraft Contracts in the Era of British Rearmament, 1935–39 pp. 82-111

Sebastian Ritchie

American Iron, 1607–1900. By Robert B. Gordon · Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xi + 341 pp. Figures, tables, photographs, notes, glossary, sources, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-5181-5 pp. 116-117

John N. Ingham

The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850–1929. By Marc Jeffrey Stern · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xiii + 306 pp. Tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $48.00. ISBN 0-8135-2098-3 pp. 118-120

Bill Gates

Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Businesses, 1936–1961. By Jonathan J. Bean · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xiv + 281 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2296-5 pp. 121-122

Philip Scranton

Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America. By Kenneth Warren · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. xvii + 426 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-8229-3889-8 pp. 123-125

Thomas J. Misa

The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865–1985. Edited ByHenry Lewis Suggs · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. 416 pp. Bibliography and index. $69.50. ISBN 0-313-25579-2 pp. 125-126

Walter A. Friedman

Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880–1990. By Daniel Nelson · Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. ix + 258 pp. Notes, tables, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-253-32883-7 pp. 127-128

Dennis Deslippe

The Great Texas Banking Crash: An Insider's Account. By Joseph M. Grant · Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 320 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-292-72791-7 pp. 128-130

Wyatt Wells

Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance. By Gregory P. Marchildon · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xvi + 348 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-8020-0740-6 pp. 130-132

Morris Altman

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890–1939. By David Monod · Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1996. vii + 438 pp. Notes, Index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8020-0650-7; paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8020-7604-1 pp. 133-134

Richard S. Tedlow

British Business History, 1720–1994. By John F. Wilson · Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. 276 pp. Bibliography and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-71904133-3 pp. 134-136

Peter Botticelli

The Factory Question and Industrial England 1830–1860. By Robert Gray · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 253 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-5214-9659-4 pp. 137-138

Geoffrey Tweedale

The History of the Distillers Company, 1877–1939. By R. B. Weir · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxii + 417 pp. Bibliography and index. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-828867-0 pp. 138-140

Judy Slinn

Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897–1927. By Niall Ferguson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix + 539. Appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-47016 pp. 140-142

Elisabeth Glaser

Horse-drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris: The Idea of Circulation and the Business of Public Transit. By Nicholas Papayanis · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xiv + 217 pp. Tables, photographs, sources, and index. $49.50. ISBN 08071-2043-X pp. 142-144

John P. McKay

European Monetary Union since 1848: A Political and Historical Analysis. By Wim F. V. Vanthoor · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1996. 207 pp. Charts, tables, appendices, bibliography and index. $70.00. ISBN 1-8589-8461-0 pp. 144-146

Huw Pill

Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited byGertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover · London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. ix + 206 pp. Notes, charts, graphs, figures, photographs, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0-7484-0261-6 pp. 146-148

Theresa McBride

Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika. By Thomas C. Owen · New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii + 259 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-509677-0 pp. 148-150

Alfred J. Rieber