Business History Review

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Volume 48, issue 4, 1974

The Textile Factory Before Arkwright: A Typology of Factory Development* pp. 451-478

Stanley D. Chapman

Scientific Management, Systematic Management, and Labor, 1880–1915 pp. 479-500

Daniel Nelson

Bolton Ogden & Co.: A Case Study in Anglo-American Trade, 1790–1850 pp. 501-519

John R. Killick

Collectivism and Charles Steinmetz pp. 520-540

James B. Gilbert

The Timber Economy of Puritan New England. By Charles F. Carroll. Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 221. $12.50 pp. 544-545

Jack P. Greene

Religion and Trade in New Netherland: Dutch Origins and American Development. By George L. Smith. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 266. $12.50 pp. 545-547

Peter S. Onuf

The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776. By Douglas F. Dowd. Cambridge, Mass., Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1974. Pp. xvii + 315. $8.98 cloth, $5.95 paper pp. 547-548

Murray N. Rothbard

Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619–1973. By Philip S. Foner. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1974. Pp. xi + 489. $15.00 pp. 548-550

Joseph M. Gowaskie

Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848–1896. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 274. $11.50 pp. 550-552

David Brody

The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat: Union Leadership in the United States, 1870–1920. By Warren R. Van Tine. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 230. $10.00 pp. 552-553

Gerald N. Grob

Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790–1840. By Allan R. Pred. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 348. $15.00 pp. 554-555

Francis X. Blouin

The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970. By Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1973. pp. xviii + 345. $12.00 pp. 555-557

Ralph E. Pumphrey

California's Railroad Era, 1850–1911. By Ward McAfee. San Marino, California, Golden West Books, 1973. Pp. 256. $8.95 pp. 557-558

H. Roger Grant

The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association: Federal Regulation and the Cattleman's Last Frontier. By William W. SavageJr. Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Press, 1973. Pp. 134. $8.50 pp. 558-560

H. Craig Miner

John Barrett, Progressive Era Diplomat: A Study of a Commercial Expansionist, 1887–1920. By Salvatore PriscoIII. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 149. $5.75 pp. 560-561

Steven Curtis Topik

John D. Rockefeller: The Cleveland Years. By Grace Goulder. Cleveland, The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1972. Pp. xiii + 271. $7.95 pp. 561-562

Robert J. Brugger

Tractor Pioneer: The Life of Harry Ferguson. By Colin Fraser. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1973. Pp. vii + 294. Illus. $10.00 pp. 563-564

Eugene S. Ferguson

The First Henry Ford: A Study in Personality and Business Leadership. By Anne Jardim. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 278. $6.95 pp. 565-567

Robert J. Brugger

A History of Investment Banking in New England. Organized and directed by Parker B. Willis. Boston, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1973. Pp. 150. Gratis pp. 567-568

Theodore P. Kovaleff

The Bank of Virginia: A History. By John H. WessellsJr. Foreword by Virginius Dabney. Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 1973. Pp. xvi + 192. $5.75 pp. 568-570

William O. Wagnon

The Basic Barnard: An Introduction to Chester I. Barnard and his Theories of Organization and Management. By William B. Wolf. Ithaca, New York: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1974. Pp. v + 140. $7.50, paper; $9.00, cloth pp. 570-571

Daniel A. Wren

Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War. By Thomas G. Paterson. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 287. $12.00 pp. 571-573

Donald J. Mrozek

The Great Gamble: The Boeing 747. By Laurence S. Kuter. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1973. Pp. ix + 134. $6.50 pp. 573-575

Robin Higham

Corporate Power and Social Change: The Politics of the Life Insurance Industry. By Karen Orren. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1974. Pp. xii + 204. $10.00 pp. 575-576

Morton Keller

The Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 43). By M. I. Finley. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 224. $8.95. - The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies. By Richard Duncan-Jones. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp + 395. $22.50 pp. 577-579

Floyd Seyward Lear

Un Changeur Florentin du Trecento: Lippo di Fede del Sega (1285 env.–1363 env.). By Charles M. de la Roncière. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1973. Pp. 277. 92F pp. 579-581

Thomas W. Blomquist

Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623–1775. By Richard B. Sheridan. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1974. Pp. xiii + 529. $22.50 pp. 582-583

Stanley L. Engerman

Tennant's Stalk: The Story of the Tennants of the Glen. By Nancy Crathorne. London, Macmillan, 1973. Pp. xviii + 243. Illustrated. $22.50 pp. 583-584

Klaus H. Wolff

La Manufacture de Toiles Imprimees de Tournemine-les-Angers (1752–1820). Etude d'Une Entreprise et d'Une Industrie au XVIIIe Siecle. By Serge Chassagne. Paris, Klincksieck, 1971. Pp. 384. 36F pp. 584-586

François Jequier

A Practical Treatise on Dying of Woolen, Cotton, and Skein Silk with the Manufacture of Broadcloth and Cassimere, Including the Most Improved Methods in the West of England. By William Partridge. Originally published by H. Walker, New York, 1823. Reissued with introduction and notes by Pasold Research Fund, Edington, Wilts., England, 1973. Pp. xi + 224. $5.50 pp. 586-588

Klaus H. Wolff

The Birth and Growth of Industrial England, 1714–1867, By John F. C. Harrison. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Pp. viii + 171. $3.95 pp. 588-589

Eric H. Robinson

Latin America and British Trade, 1806–1914. By D. C. M. Platt. New York, Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1973. Pp. xi + 352. $12.50 pp. 589-590

Nathaniel H. Leff

British Nationalisation, 1945–1973. By R. Kelf-Cohen. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 288. $14.95 pp. 590-592

John M. Stopford

Volume 48, issue 3, 1974

The Origins of Multinational Manufacturing by Continental European Firms* pp. 277-302

Lawrence G. Franko

The Origins of British-Based Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises* pp. 303-335

John M. Stopford

Foreign Enterprise in Russian and Soviet Industry: A Long Term Perspective pp. 336-356

John P. McKay

The Multinational Spread of Japanese Manufacturing Investment since World War II* pp. 357-381

M.Y. Yoshino

Origins of United States Direct Investment in France* pp. 382-413

Charles P. Kindleberger

Multinational Oil Companies in South America in the 1920s: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru pp. 414-446

Mira Wilkins

Volume 48, issue 2, 1974

Textile Bleaching and the Birth of the Chemical Industry pp. 143-163

Klaus H. Wolff

The Evolution of Commercial Credit Reporting Agencies in Nineteenth-Century America* pp. 164-186

James H. Madison

Informal Entente: Public Policy and Private Management in Anglo-American Petroleum Affairs, 1918–1924 pp. 187-205

Michael J. Hogan

Kansas City to Denver to Cheyenne: Pacific Railroad Construction Costs and Profits* pp. 206-224

William R. Petrowski

Le Territoire de L'Historien. By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Paris, Gallimard, 1973. Pp. 544. NF 58 pp. 227-228

Robert Forster

Bankers to the Crown: The Riccardi of Lucca and Edward I. By Richard W. Kaeuper. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xviii + 279. $12.50 pp. 228-230

Thomas W. Blomquist

Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720. By Murdo J. MacLeod. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 554. $20.00 pp. 231-232

David Felix

The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529–1642. By Lawrence Stone. New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1972. Pp. xiv + 168. $2.95 pp. 232-233

Stuart E. Prall

A History of Prices in Sweden, 1732–1914. By Lennart Jörberg. Lund, Sweden, CWK Gleerup, 1972. Vol. I, Sources, Methods, Tables. Pp. viii + 714. Vol. II, Description, Analysis. Pp. x + 391. 195 Crowns pp. 234-235

Walt W. Rostow

Launceston Bank for Savings, 1835–1970: A History of Australia's Oldest Savings Bank. By E. A. Beever. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1972. Distributed in the United States by International Scholarly Book Services, Inc., Portland, Oregon. Pp. xix + 231. $7.80 pp. 235-237

Alan Barnard

The Trade Makers: Elder Dempster in West Africa, 1852–1972. By P. N. Davies. Hemel Hempstead, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1973. Pp. 526. £8.50 pp. 237-238

Sheila Marriner

Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870–1913. By Donald M. McCloskey. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 157. $11.00 pp. 238-240

Barry E. Supple

The Business of Banking, 1891–1914. By C. A. E. Goodhart. New York, Hillary House Publishers, 1972. Pp. ix + 628. $18.00 pp. 240-242

J. Keith Horsefield

Big-Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands. By Ben R. Finney. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1973. Pp. xxii + 206. $10.00 pp. 242-243

Polly Hill

Mexican Business Organizations: History and Analysis. By Robert Jones Shafer. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1973. Pp. viii + 397. $15.00 pp. 243-245

Dwight S. Brothers

Money and Politics in America, 1755–1775. By Joseph Albert Ernst. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1973. Pp. x + 403. $14.95 pp. 245-246

Gary M. Walton

The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784, Volume 1: February 7-July 31, 1781. Edited by E. James Ferguson. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. Pp. xlix + 437. $17.50 pp. 246-248

R. A. Ryerson

Independence on Trial: Foreign Affairs and the Making of the Constitution. By Frederick W. MarksIII. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 256. $10.00 pp. 248-249

Gary L. Browne

Conquest and Conscience: The 1840s. By Robert Sobel. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. Pp. xvii + 330 pp. 250-251

Donald T. Zimmer

Riches, Class, and Power Before the Civil War. By Edward Pessen. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath, 1973. Pp. 378. $7.95 pp. 251-253

Gloria L. Main

Louis McLane: Federalist and Jacksonian. By John A. Munroe. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 763. $22.50 pp. 253-254

Edwin J. Perkins

That Man Haupt: A Biography of Herman Haupt. By James A. Ward. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 278. $11.95 pp. 255-255

Maury Klein

The Cincinnati Brewing Industry: A Social and Economic History. By William L. Downard. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1973. Pp. 173. $12.50 pp. 256-257

J. W. Lozier

Labor and Socialism in America: The Gompers Era. By William M. Dick. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1972. Pp. 211. $10.95 pp. 257-258

Gerald N. Grob

The Cattle Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866–1890. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 1973. Pp. ix + 173. $8.00 pp. 258-260

John L. Bernardi

The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties. By Robert C. Alberts. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. Pp. xi + 297. $10.00 pp. 260-261

T. Allan Comp

The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874–1901. By Tom E. Terrill. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. x + 306. $12.00 pp. 261-262

Sidney Ratner

American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877–1889. By Kenneth J. Hagan. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. x + 262. $11.50 pp. 263-263

William H. Becker

America for Americans: Economic Nationalism and Anglophobia in the Late Nineteenth Century. By Edward P. Crapol. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. vii + 248. $12.50 pp. 264-265

Richard H. Werking

Pierpont Morgan and Friends: The Anatomy of a Myth. By George Wheeler. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1973. Pp. 338. $10.00 pp. 265-267

Vincent P. Carosso

Billy Durant, Creator of General Motors. By Lawrence R. Gustin. Grand Rapids, Michigan, William B. Erdmans Publishing Co., 1973. Pp. 285. $8.95 pp. 267-268

John B. Rae

Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897–1917. By Albio Martin. New York, Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 402. $10.95 pp. 268-271

Thomas K. McCraw

The World in Depression, 1929–1939. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 336. $10.00 pp. 271-273

George D. Green

The Crisis Meeters: Business Response to Social Crisis. By Irving S. Michelman. Clifton, N.J., Augustus M. Kelley, 1973. Pp. xvii + 418. $15.00 pp. 273-274

Morrell Heald

Mr. Piper and His Cubs. By Devon Francis. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 256. $7.95 pp. 274-275

Robin Higham

Volume 48, issue 1, 1974

Federal Bank Policy, Bank Market Structure, and Bank Performance: Wisconsin, 1863–1914* pp. 1-27

Richard H. Keehn

Business History in Germany: A Survey of Recent Developments pp. 28-48

Hans Jaeger

Great Expectations: The Search for Order in Bituminous Coal, 1890–1917* pp. 49-72

William Graebner

The Truman Administration and the Enlistment of the Aviation Industry in Postwar Defense* pp. 73-94

Donald J. Mrozek

A Note on the Economic Viability of the Erie Canal, 1825-1860 pp. 95-102

Ronald W. Filante

Los Origenes del Capitalismo en España. By Gabriel Tortella Casares. Madrid, Editorial Tecnos, 1973. Pp. xxii + 407. 400 pesetas pp. 106-107

J. Clayburn La Force

Une Entreprise Horlogère du Val-De-Travers: Fleurier Watch CO. SA. By François Jequier. Neuchâtel, Editions de la Baconnière, 1972. Pp. 406. 30 francs pp. 108-109

James M. Laux

Economic Growth in History: Survey and Analysis. By J. D. Gould. London, Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1972. Pp. xix + 460. $15.00 pp. 109-111

Louis P. Cain

Medieval Regions and their Cities. By Josiah Cox Russell. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1972. Pp. 286. $8.95 pp. 111-112

Paul W. Knoll

The Wine Trade. By A. D. Francis. New York, Barnes and Noble, 1973. Pp. 353. $12.50 pp. 113-113

G. V. Scammell

War and Trade in Northern Seas: Anglo-Scandinavian Economic Relations in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. By H. S. K. Kent. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xv + 240. $17.00 pp. 114-115

Walther Kirchner

France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674–1791, and of its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades. By Jacob M. Price. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1973. 2 vols. Pp. xxii + 1239. $35.00 pp. 115-117

Walter E. Minchinton

The London Weavers' Company, 1600–1970. By Alfred Plummer. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Pp. xviii + 476. $26.75 pp. 117-118

Stanley D. Chapman

Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway: A Study of Management. By T. R. Gourvish. Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1972. Pp. 319. £5.00 pp. 118-120

Richard C. Overton

Business Enterprise and Economic Change: Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson. Edited by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 323. $12.50 pp. 120-121

Gerald D. Nash

Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia: the First American Porcelain Factory, 1770–1772. By Graham Hood. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Pp. xiii + 78. $6.95 pp. 122-123

Maureen O'B. Quimby

Economic Opportunity and White American Fertility Ratios, 1800–1860. By Colin Forster and G. S. L. Tucker with the assistance of Helen Bridge. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972. Pp. ix + 121. $6.50 pp. 124-125

Simeon J. Crowther

Black Bondage in the North. By Edgar J. McManus. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 223. $9.95 pp. 125-127

Alan Tully

Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821–1860. By Julia Floyd Smith. Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1973. Pp. ix + 249. $8.50 pp. 127-128

Stanley L. Engerman

The Politics of Jacksonian Finance. By John M. McFaul, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 230. $9.75 pp. 128-130

Richard H. Keehn

George W. Brackenridge: Maverick Philanthropist. By Marilyn McAdams Sibley. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 280. $8.50 pp. 130-131

Arthur J. Mayer

Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. By Robert V. Bruce. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1973. Pp. xi + 564. $12.50 pp. 132-133

Joseph Frazier Wall

The Credit Merchants: A History of Spiegel, Inc. By Orange A. Smalley and Frederick D. Sturdivant. Carbondale, III., Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 336. $12.50 pp. 133-135

Mansel G. Blackford

Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912–1932. By Craig Lloyd. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1972. Pp. xiv + 206. $10.75 pp. 135-136

Alan R. Raucher

Toward a National Power Policy: The New Deal and the Electric Utility Industry, 1933–1941. By Philip J. Funigiello. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 296. $12.95 pp. 136-138

Thomas K. McCraw

How Edison's Lamp Helped Light the West. By John Dierdorff. Portland, Oregon, Pacific Power & Light Co., 1971. Pp. 313. - Future Builders. By George Bush. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. Pp. xiii + 603. $7.95 pp. 138-140

Rosario J. Tosiello

Bread Upon the Waters. A History of United States Grain Exports. By Harry Fornari. Nashville, Tenn., Aurora Publishers Incorporated, 1973. Pp. xvii + 174. $10.00 pp. 140-140

John G. Clark

The Influence of the United States on Canadian Development: Eleven Case Studies. Edited by Richard A. Preston. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 269. $7.75 pp. 141-142

Christopher Armstrong