Business History Review

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Volume 44, issue 4, 1970

Washington and Wall Street: The New Deal and Investment Bankers, 1933–1940 pp. 425-445

Vincent Carosso

A “New Class” in China's Treaty Ports: The Rise of the Comprador-Merchants* pp. 446-459

Yen-p'ing Hao

The Refrigerator Car and the Growth of the American Dressed Beef Industry pp. 460-482

Mary Yeager Kujovich

Business History: Present Status and Future Needs pp. 483-497

Ralph W. Hidy

The French, Belgians, and Dutch Come to Salt Creek pp. 498-519

Gene M. Gressley

“A Newly Appreciated Art:” The Development of Personnel Work at Leeds & Northrup, 1915–1923 pp. 520-535

Daniel Nelson

The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1914. By Peter Mathias. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Pp. xiv + 493. $10.00 pp. 550-551

Stuart Bruchey

The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise: The Rise and Fall of a Family Firm 1818–1880. By Rhodes Boyson. Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xviii + 285. $9.00 pp. 552-553

Sheila Marriner

The Royal Exchange Assurance: A History of British Insurance 1720–1970. By Barry Supple. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xxii + 584. $16.00 pp. 553-554

Gerald T. White

Trade and Empire in Western India, 1784–1806. By Pamela Nightingale. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xv + 264. $11.50 pp. 554-555

Ainslie T. Embree

Unternehmensverwaltung und Angestelltenschaft am Beispiel Siemens, 1847–1914: Zum Verhältnis von Kapitalismus und Bürokratie in der Deutschen Industrialisierung. By Jürgen Kocka. Stuttgart, Ernst Klett Verlag, 1969. Pp. 630. 80 DM pp. 556-557

Eugene C. McCreary

Die Wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit des Dritten Reiches vom Ausland Dargestellt am Beispiel der Stahlindustrie. By Jörg-Johannes Jäger. Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 1969. Pp. 336. 50 DM pp. 557-558

Arthur Schweitzer

The Course of American Economic Growth and Development. By Louis M. Hacker. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1970. Pp. xxvi + 382. $8.00 pp. 559-560

William Appleman Williams

Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology. By Carroll W. PursellJr., Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. Pp. viii + 152. $6.75 pp. 560-562

Paul J. Uselding

Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Cleveland, Press of Case Western Reserve, 1969. Pp. xxi + 376. $8.95 pp. 562-563

Vincent A. Carrafiello

Prelude to Populism: Origins of the Silver Issue, 1867–1878. By Allen Weinstein. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1970. Pp. xi + 433. $10.00 pp. 564-565

Irving Katz

Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872–1890. By Richard Sennett. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. x + 258. $8.50 pp. 565-567

Peter H. Rossi

The Roots of the Modern American Empire, a Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Marketplace Society. By William Appleman Williams. New York, Random House, 1969. Pp. xxiv + 546. $15.00 pp. 567-568

J. R. T. Hughes

The Life and Decline of the American Railroad. By John F. Stover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xi + 324. $7.50 pp. 568-569

Richard W. Barsness

The Espuela Land and Cattle Company. By William Curry Holden. Austin, Texas State Historical Association, 1970. Pp. xi + 268. $9.00. - The Texas Land Development Company. By B. R. Brunson. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 248. $7.50 pp. 570-572

E. Dale Odom

Consumer Finance: A Case History in American Business. By Irving S. Michelman. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1970. Pp. 336. $10.00 pp. 572-574

Robert W. Johnson

That Wonderful A & P! By Edwin P. Hoyt. New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1969. Pp. 279. $6.95 pp. 572-572

Frederick D. Sturdivant

Work in Traditional and Modern Society. By Stanley H. UdyJr., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. Pp. ix + 134. $5.95 pp. 574-576

Jack Crowley

Volume 44, issue 3, 1970

The Emerging Organizational Synthesis In Modern American History* pp. 279-290

Louis Galambos

The Steel Industry and Price-Fixing During World War I pp. 291-306

Robert D. Cuff and Melvin I. Urofsky

Businessmen and the Regulation of Railroads and Public Utilities in California During the Progressive Era pp. 307-319

Mansel Griffiths Blackford

The Supreme Court and American Trade Associations, 1921–1925 pp. 320-338

M. Browning Carrott

The Mystery of Fuel Wood Marketing In the United States pp. 339-359

Arthur H. Cole

The Rise of the Entrepreneur. By J. W. Gough. New York, Schocken Books, Inc., 1970. Pp. 325. $8.95 pp. 389-390

Jennifer Carter

Economy, Society, and Government in Medieval Italy: Essays in Memory of Robert L. Reynolds. Edited by David Herlihy, Robert S. Lopez, and Vsevolod Slessarev, Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 270. $7.50 pp. 390-391

Archibald R. Lewis

Vie Commerciale de la Route du Cap Horn au XIXe Siècle: L'Armament A.D. Bordes et Fils. By Marthe Barbance. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1969. Pp. 372. 49F pp. 392-393

John G. B. Hutchins

The Blanket Makers, 1669–1969: A History of Charles Early and Marriot (Witney) Ltd. By Alfred Plummer and Richard E. Early. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. Pp. xii + 205. $12.50 pp. 394-395

Robert E. Tyson

Liverpool and Merseyside: Essays in the Economic and Social History of the Port and Its Hinterland. Edited by J. R. Harris. New York, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1969. Pp. xiv + 287. $13.50 pp. 395-396

Anthony Slaven

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project, 1821–1831. By Robert E. Carlson. New York, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1969. Pp. 279. $13.50 pp. 396-397

John H. White

British Transport: An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth. By H. J. Dyos and D. H. Aldcroft. Leicester, Leicester University Press. Distributed in North America by Humanities Press, New York. Pp. 473. 72s pp. 397-399

Barry E. Supple

The Rise of Business Corporations in India, 1851–1900. By Radhe Shyam Rungta. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xviii + 332. $16.00 pp. 399-400

Dwijendra Tripathi

The Controversy over German Industrialization, 1890–1902. By Kenneth D. Barkin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 307. $11.50 pp. 400-402

Gerald D. Feldman

The Development of the Brazilian Steel Industry. By Werner Baer. Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Press, 1969. Pp. xiii + 202. $10.00 pp. 402-403

Winthrop R. Wright

Peltries or Plantations: The Economic Policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland, 1623–1639. By Van Cleaf Bachman. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 183. $7.50 pp. 403-405

Lawrence H. Leder

Factory under the Elms: A History of Harrisville, New Hampshire, 1774–1969. By John Borden Armstrong. Cambridge, Massachusetts, M. I. T. Press, 1969. Pp. 309. $12.50 pp. 405-406

Thomas R. Navin

The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin's Formative Years. By Ellen B. Ballon. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Pp. xv + 695. $12.50 pp. 406-408

Frederic Cople Jaher

Out of the Cracker Barrel: The Nabisco Story from Animal Crackers to Zuzus. By William Cahn. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1969. Pp. 367. $8.95 pp. 408-409

Joe B. Frantz

A Global Corporation: A History of the International Development of Massey-Ferguson Limited. By E. P. Neufeld. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969. Pp. xv + 427. $15.00 pp. 410-411

Clark C. Spence

Industrial Slavery in the Old South. By Robert S. Starobin. New York, Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xiii + 320. $7.95 pp. 411-413

Fred Bateman

Changes in Agriculture: The Northern United States, 1820–1870. By Clarence H. Danhof. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. x + 322. $10.00 pp. 413-415

John T. Schlebeker

Engineering in American Society, 1850–1875. By Raymond H. Metritt. Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1969. Pp. vi + 199. $7.95 pp. 415-416

John B. Rae

The Rise of the Accounting Profession: From Technician to Profession, 1896–1936. By John L. Carey. New York, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1969. Pp. xvii + 387. $7.50 pp. 416-417

Stephen A. Zeff

The Regulators: Watchdog Agencies and the Public Interest. By Louis M. KohlmeierJr., New York, Harper & Row, 1969. Pp. ix + 339. $8.95 pp. 418-420

Kurt Borchardt

The Emergence of Oligopoly: Sugar Refining as a Case Study. By Alfred S. Eichner. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. Pp. xi + 388. $12.00 pp. 420-422

Jack Blicksilver

Volume 44, issue 2, 1970

The Economics of Industrial Slavery In the Old South pp. 131-174

Robert S. Starobin

Why Railroads Supported Regulation: The Case of Wisconsin, 1905–1910* pp. 175-189

Stanley Caine

The Development of the Private Railroad Freight Car, 1830–1966* pp. 190-209

William E. O'Connell

Nuremberg in the International Economics of the Middle Ages pp. 210-225

Wolfgang von Stromer

The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe From 1750 to the Present. By David S. Landes. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. lx + 566. $8.50 pp. 238-241

S. G. Checkland

The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe, 1300–1460. By Harry A. Miskimin. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. Pp. xi + 180. $5.95 pp. 241-242

Richard A. Goldthwaite

Von Handel und Bank im Alten Zuerich. By Hans Conrad Peyer. Zurich, Berichthaus, 1968. Pp. 323. S.fr. 28 pp. 243-244

Udo Heyn

Capital et Machine a Vapeur au XVIIIe Siecle: Les Freres Perier et L'Introduction en France de la Machine a Vapeur de Watt. By Jacques Payen. Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Vol. I. Paris, Mouton, 1969. Pp. 322. Fr. 49 pp. 244-245

Charles E. Freedeman

Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820–1914. By E. R. J. Owen. London, Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. xxvi + 416. $11.75 pp. 245-246

Lars G. Sandberg

The Hollingworth Letters: Technical Change in the Textile Industry, 1826–1837. Edited by Thomas W. Leavitt. Cambridge, Mass., The Society for the History of Technology and the M.I.T. Press, 1969. Pp. xxvii + 120. $5.95 pp. 247-247

Duncan Bythell

Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation. By Maren Lockwood Carden. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. Pp. xx + 228. $8.50 pp. 248-249

Edward C. Kirkland

Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820–1861. By Harry N. Scheiber. Athens, Ohio, The Ohio University Press, 1969. Pp. viii + 430. $10.00 pp. 249-251

Hugh G. J. Aitken

William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker. By Dwight L. Clarke. San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1969. Pp. xviii + 446. $9.95 pp. 251-252

Erling A. Erickson

Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters. By Robert Sobel. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1968. Pp. 469. $8.95 pp. 252-253

Herman E. Krooss

Pioneering the Union Pacific: A Reappraisal of the Builders of the Railroad. By Charles Edgar Ames. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Pp. xvii + 591. $10.95 pp. 253-255

Robert L. Peterson

Factories in the Valley: Neenah-Menasha, 1870–1915. By Charles N. Glabb and Lawrence H. Larsen. Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1969. Pp. ix + 293. $5.95 pp. 255-256

Norman L. Crockett

The History of the Linseed Oil Industry in the United States. By Whitney Eastman. Minneapolis, T. S. Denison & Company, 1968, Pp. 277. $7.95 pp. 256-257

James A. Tinsley

The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835–1910. By Katherine A. Harvey. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. xiv + 488. $14.50 pp. 257-258

Wayne G. Broehl

Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936–1937. By Sidney Fine. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 448. $12.50 pp. 259-260

Jerold S. Auerbach

Enterprise Monopoly in the United States: 1899–1958. By G. Warren Nutter and Henry Adler Einhorn. New York, Columbia University Press, 1969. Pp. xviii + 256. $10.00 pp. 260-261

Harold C. Livesay

United States Oil Policy, 1890–1964: Business and Government in Twentieth Century America. By Gerald D. Nash. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pp. xiii + 286. $7.95 pp. 261-263

Forrest McDonald

The Corporation in American Politics. By Edwin M. Epstein. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. Pp. 365. $8.50 pp. 263-264

George C. Lodge

Business at Bay: Critics and Heretics of American Business. By Irving S. Michelman. New York, A.M. Kelley, 1969. Pp. xxi + 299. $10.00 pp. 264-265

Morrell Heald

John F. Kennedy and the Business Community. By Jim F. Heath. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 198. $5.95 pp. 265-267

George D. Green

Think: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM. By William Rodgers. New York, Stein and Day, 1969. Pp. 320. $7.95 pp. 267-268

Saul Engelbourg

The Industrialization of São Paulo, 1880–1945. By Warren Dean. Latin American Monographs, No. 17, Institute of Latin American Studies, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969. Pp. x + 263. $7.50 pp. 268-270

Nathaniel H. Leff

Golden Age: The Story of the Industrialization of South Africa and the Part Played in It by the Corner House Group of Companies, 1910–1967. By Alan P. Cartwright. Cape Town, Purnell & Sons, Ltd., 1968. Pp. xviii + 363. Rand 7.50 pp. 270-271

Muriel E. Hidy

Louis Renault: A Biography. By Anthony Rhodes. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. Pp. x + 233. $6.95 pp. 271-272

James M. Laux

The Large International Firm in Developing Countries: the International Petroleum Industry. By Edith T. Penrose. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1969. Pp. 311. $12.00 pp. 273-277

Charles Wilson

Volume 44, issue 1, 1970

Entrepreneurial Studies in Japan: An Introduction pp. 1-12

Henry Rosovsky and Kozo Yamamura

The Japanese Spirit of Enterprise, 1867–1970 pp. 13-38

Johannes Hirschmeier

The Personality and Career of Hikojirō Nakamigawa, 1887–1901 pp. 39-61

Tsunehiko Yui

The Organizational Structure of Mitsubishi and Mitsui Zaibatsu, 1868–1922: A Comparative Study pp. 62-83

Hidemasa Morikawa

Factory Legislation and Management Modernization during Japan's Industrialization, 1886–1916 pp. 84-109

Koji Taira

Evolution of the Japanese System of Employer-Employee Relations, 1868–1945 pp. 110-125

Robert Evans

A Note on Japan Business History Review and Recent Books pp. 126-130

Kozo Yamamura