Business History Review

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Volume 43, issue 4, 1969

Black Pride and Negro Business in the 1920's: George Washington Lee of Memphis pp. 435-451

David M. Tucker

Business and Workers' Welfare in the Progressive Era: Workmen's Compensation Reform in Massachusetts, 1880–1911 pp. 452-475

Robert Asher

The Formative Years of the British Aircraft Industry, 1913–1924 pp. 476-495

Peter Fearon

A Glasgow Firm in the Indian Market: John Lean and Sons, Muslin Weavers pp. 496-522

Anthony Slaven

The Supply of Muskets and Spain's War of Independence* pp. 523-544

J. Clayburn La Force

The London Discount Market. By W. M. Scammell. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1968. Pp. 269. $12.50 pp. 555-557

C. A. E. Goodhart

Industry Before the Industrial Revolution: Incorporating a Study of the Chartered Companies of the Society of Mines Royal and of Mineral and Battery Works. By William Rees. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1968. 2 Vols. Pp. xv + 698. $25.00 pp. 557-558

Baron F. Duckham

A History of Carpenters Company. By B. W. E. Alford and T. C. Barker. London, George Allen and Unwin, 1968. Pp. 271. 60s pp. 558-559

John R. Kellett

The Handloom Weavers: A Study in the English Cotton Industry During the Industrial Revolution. By Duncan Bythell. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. 272. $12.50 pp. 560-560

Elizabeth W. Gilboy

The Jacksonian Economy. By Peter Temin, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1969. Pp. 208. $5.50 pp. 560-563

Stanley L. Engerman

The American System of Manufactures: The Report of the Committee on the Machinery of the United States, 1855, and the Special Reports of George Wallis and Joseph Whitworth, 1854. Edited with an Introduction by Nathan Rosenberg. Edinburgh, The University Press, 1969. Pp. 440. $13.75 pp. 563-564

Carroll Pursell

The Canal Age. By Charles Hadfield. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. Pp. 233. $6.75 pp. 564-565

Ralph D. Gray

The Beginnings of Railway Development in Russia in the Reign of Nicholas I, 1835–1842. By Richard Mowbray Haywood. Durham, Duke University Press, 1969. Pp. xvii + 270. $9.00 pp. 566-567

John P. McKay

The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities. By John R. Kellett. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969. Pp. xxi + 467. $11.50 pp. 567-568

Stanley Buder

Die Beziehungen zwischen der Kommune Pisa und Agypten im hohen Mittelalter: Eine Rechts-und Wirtschaftshistorische Untersuchung. By Karl-Heinz Allmendinger. Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beiheft 54. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 1967. Pp. viii + 109. DM 22 pp. 568-569

Vsevolod Slessarev

The Traditional Trade of Asia. By C. G. F. Simkin. New York, Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. xiii + 417. $9.00 pp. 569-571

John H. Parry

The Latin American Economies: A Study of Their Institutional Evolution. By William P. Glade. New York, American Book Company, 1969. Pp. xiv + 665. $16.00 pp. 571-573

Dwight S. Brothers

Politics and Beef in Argentina: Patterns Of Conflict and Change. By Peter H. Smith. New York, Columbia University Press, 1969. Pp. xii + 292. $10.00 pp. 573-574

David M. Pletcher

Scientists in Conflict: The Beginnings of the Oil Industry In California. By Gerald T. White. San Marino, Calif., The Huntington Library, 1969. Pp. xiv + 272. $8.00 pp. 575-577

W. David Lewis

John A. Johnson: An Uncommon American. By Agnes M. Larson. Northfield, Minnesota, The Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1969. Pp. viii + 312. $6.50 pp. 577-578

James D. Norris

Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations. By Melvin I. Urofsky. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University Press, 1969. Pp. xxxii + 364. $8.00 pp. 578-580

Paul A. C. Koistinen

Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920–1960. By John B. Rae. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1968. Pp. x + 280. $12.50 pp. 580-581

Robin Higham

Innovation in the United States Carpet Industry, 1947–1963. By William A. Reynolds. Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1969. Pp. xiv + 178. $7.00 pp. 581-582

Norman L. Crockett

Family Business: A Century in the Life and Times of Strawbridge & Clothier. By Alfred Lief. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. Pp. 343. $6.95 pp. 583-584

Dwight E. Robinson

Outdoor Advertising: History And Regulation. Edited by John W. Houck. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1969. Pp. vi + 250. $15.00 pp. 584-585

Otis A. Pease

Robert R. Young: The Populist Of Wall Street. By Joseph Borkin. New York, Harper & Row, 1969. Pp. xi + 236. $6.95 pp. 586-586

Eli F. Goldston

A Gentleman of the Press: The Story of Colonel John Bayne MacLean and the Publishing Empire he Founded. By Floyd S. Chalmers. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, 1969. Pp. x + 368. $7.95 pp. 587-588

Edward L. Anthony

Someone Has to Make it Happen: The Inside Story of Tex Thornton, The Man Who Built Litton Industries. By Bernie Lay Jr. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. Pp. ix + 204. $6.95 pp. 588-590

David L. Lewis

The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 1859–1964. By R. Carlyle Buley. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967. 2 vols. Pp. xxxviii + vi + 1475. $35.00 pp. 590-592

Charles J. Kennedy

Volume 43, issue 3, 1969

The Structure of American Industry in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Overview pp. 255-298

Alfred Chandler

“Peacefully Working to Conquer the World:” The Singer Manufacturing Company in Foreign Markets, 1854–1889 pp. 299-325

Robert B. Davies

An American Enterprise Abroad: American Radiator Company in Europe, 1895–1914 pp. 326-346

Mira Wilkins

Recollections of the Banking Crisis in 1933 pp. 347-371

Francis Gloyd Awalt

International Business Finance and Monetary Policy in Western Europe, 1384–1410 pp. 372-380

Herman van der Wee

Religious Factors in Early Dutch Capitalism, 1550–1650. By Jelle C. Riemersma. The Hague, Mouton & Company, 1967. Pp. 98. Dutch Guilders 14. - New York Beginnings: the Commercial Origins of New Netherland. By Thomas J. Condon. New York, New York University Press, 1968. Pp. xiv + 210. $8.00 pp. 392-394

Theodore K. Rabb

Revue Internationale d'Histoire de la Banque. Volume I. Edited by Domenico Demarco. Geneve, Librairie Droz, 1968. viii + 687 pp. Fr. s. 60.00 pp. 394-396

Fritz Redlich

Prussian Mercantilism and the Rise of the Krefeld Silk Industry: Variations upon an Eighteenth-Century Theme. By Herbert Kisch. Philadelphia, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1968. Vol. 58, Pt. 7. Pp. 50. $2.00 pp. 396-397

Arnost Klíma

The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts. By John J. WatersJr., Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Pp. xvi + 221. $6.95 pp. 397-399

Robert L. Ganyard

The Growth of the Seaport Cities, 1790–1825: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, March 17–19, 1966. Edited by David T. Gilchrist. Charlottesville, The University of Virginia Press, 1967. Pp. xvi + 227. $5.00 pp. 399-401

Richard C. Wade

The Textile Industry in Antebellum South Carolina. By Ernest McPherson LanderJr., Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Pp. vii + 122. $5.00 pp. 401-402

Jack Blicksilver

Lords of the Loom: The Cotton Whigs and the Coming of the Civil War. By Thomas H. O'Connor. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Pp. 167. $7.50 pp. 403-404

V. Jacques Voegeli

Rail Routes South: Louisville's Fight for the Southern Market, 1865–1872. By Leonard P. Curry. Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky Press, 1969. Pp. 150. $5.95 pp. 404-405

Charles R. Schultz

The Franco-Texan Land Company. By Virginia H. Taylor. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969. Pp. xiv + 331. $7.50 pp. 405-406

Keith L. Bryant

Mark Twain's Correspondence With Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909. Edited with an Introduction by Lewis Leary. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xvii + 768. $15.00 pp. 406-408

Kenneth R. Andrews

Destination Topolobampo: the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway. By John Leeds Kerr with Frank Donovan. San Marino, California, Golden West Books, 1968. Pp. 270. $7.95 pp. 408-409

John H. White

Mexico's Natural Gas: The Beginning of an Industry. By Fredda Jean Bullard. Austin, Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, 1968, pp. XXIV + 336 pp. 409-411

Miguel S. Wionczek

China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893–1901. By Thomas J. McCormick. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1967. Pp. 241. $6.50 pp. 411-412

Raymond Esthus

The Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, 1784–1879. By Alan Birch. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. Pp. xv + 397. $17.50 pp. 412-414

Donald McCloskey

British Railways in Transition: The Economic Problems of Britain's Railways Since 1914. By Derek H. Aldcroft. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1968. Pp. 252. $8.95 pp. 415-416

Wray Vamplew

Japan's Managerial System: Tradition and Innovation. By M. Y. Yoshino. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1968. Pp. xvi + 292. $12.50 pp. 416-417

Kozo Yamamura

Chemicals in Western Europe, 1850–1914: An Economic Study of Technical Change. By Paul M. Hohenberg. Chicago, Rand McNally and Company, 1967. Pp. 166. $7.00 pp. 418-418

Wolfram Fischer

AZn: A History of the American Zinc Company. By James D. Norris. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1969. Pp. 214. $5.95. - A History of the Zinc Smelting Industry in Britain. By Edward J. Cocks and B. Walters. London, George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., Publishers, 1968. Pp. ix + 224. $11.00 pp. 419-421

Collamer M. Abbott

Chesapeake, Pioneer Papermaker: A History of the Company and its Community. By Alonzo Thomas Dill. Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 1968. Pp. 356. $8.50 pp. 421-424

David C. Smith

The National Life Story: A History of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company of Nashville, Tennessee. By Powell Stamper. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968. Pp. 360. $6.95 pp. 424-425

Robert C. Puth

Unemployment Insurance: The American Experience, 1915–1935. By Daniel Nelson. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 305. $10.00 pp. 425-427

Robert Asher

Ernie Breech: The Story of his Remarkable Career at General Motors, Ford, and TWA. By J. Mel Hickerson. New York, Meredith Press, 1968. Pp. xxi + 241. $6.95 pp. 427-429

J. W. E.,

The Comptroller and Bank Supervision. By Ross M. Robertson. Washington, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 1968. Pp. x + 262. $2.00 hard cover, $1.00 paper pp. 429-430

Paul B. Trescott

Public Relations and Business, 1900–1929. By Alan R. Raucher. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. Pp. xii + 178. $6.95 pp. 430-431

Gerald T. White

Education and the Business Dollar: A Study of Corporate Contributions Policy and American Education. By Kenneth G. Patrick and Richard Eells. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1969. Pp. xix + 313. $8.95 pp. 431-433

Erling A. Erickson

Volume 43, issue 2, 1969

Bernard Baruch: Symbol and Myth in Industrial Mobilization pp. 115-133

Robert D. Cuff

Land Grants to American Railroads: Social Cost or Social Benefit? pp. 134-151

Lloyd J. Mercer

Don Juan de Goyeneche: Industrialist of Eighteenth-Century Spain pp. 152-170

William J. Callahan

Money and Banking in a “Bankless” State: Iowa, 1846–1857 pp. 171-191

Erling A. Erickson

“Dependência do Imperialismo:” Foreign Investment in Brazil, 1935 pp. 192-203

Theodore M. Berson

The History of Unilever: Challenge and Response in the Post-War Industrial Revolution, 1945–1965. By Charles Wilson. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Pp. ix + 290. $8.00 pp. 216-218

Mira Wilkins

Histoire De La Maison Rothschild: Volume II: 1848–1870. By Bertrand Gille. Geneve, Librairie Droz, 1967. Pp. 623. 38 S. fr pp. 218-221

Jean-Francois Bergier

Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 1818–1968. By John A. Kouwenhoven. Garden City, N.J., Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Pp. 248. $14.95 pp. 222-223

Irving Katz

Montagu Norman. By Andrew Boyle. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1967. Pp. vii + 349. $10.00 pp. 223-225

Frank W. Fetter

The New York Money Market and the Finance of Trade, 1900–1913. By C. A. E. Goodhart. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. 235. $6.50 pp. 225-226

Larry Neal

Winthrop W. Aldrich: Lawyer, Banker, Diplomat. By Arthur M. Johnson. Boston, Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1968. Pp. x + 536. $10.00 pp. 226-230

Arthur M. Johnson

L'Industrialisation de la Sidérurgie Française, 1814–1864. by Jean Vial. Paris, Mouton & Co., 1967. 2 vols. Pp. x + 470. 110. 98 fr pp. 230-232

Charles K. Warner

Rob. M. Sloman, Jr.: Errichtet, 1793. By Ernst Hieke, Hamburg, Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968. Pp. 535. DM 57.75 pp. 230-230

J. P. B.,

Scotland and Australia, 1788–1850: Emigration, Commerce and Investment. By David S. Macmillan. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xviii + 434. $12.00. - Wealth & Progress: Studies in Australian Business History. Edited byAlan Birch and David S. Macmillan. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1967. Pp. x + 190. $6.50 pp. 232-234

C. B. Schedvin

Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China. By Edward LeFevour. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 215. $3.50 pp. 234-235

John McMaster

The Browns of Providence Plantation: The Nineteenth Century. By James B. Hedges. Providence, Brown University Press, 1968. Pp. 325. $10.00 pp. 236-237

Robert A. Davison

A Century Of Cooperative Insurance. By Ronald G. Garnett. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1968. Pp. 324. 42s pp. 237-238

Carl E. McDowell

Electric Power in Brazil: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector. By Judith Tendler. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. xvii + 264. $10.00 pp. 239-240

Donald Edmund Rady

The Brazilian Capital Goods Industry, 1929–1964. By Nathaniel H. Leff, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 186. $5.50 pp. 240-242

Irving Stone

The U.S. Machine Tool Industry From 1900 to 1950. By Harless D. Wagoner. Cambridge, The M.I.T. Press, 1968. Pp. xiv + 421. $15.00 pp. 242-243

Derek H. Aldcroft

American Railroad Politics, 1914–1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency. By K.Austin Kerr. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pp. viii + 250. $7.95 pp. 243-244

Robert W. Harbeson

The Unreasonable American: Francis W. Davis, Inventor Of Power Steering. Houston Branch and Wendell Smith. Washington, Acropolis Books for the Academy of Applied Science, 1968. Pp. 251. $6.95 pp. 245-246

J. W. E.,

The Dow Story: The History of the Dow Chemical Company. By Don Whitehead. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. Pp. x + 298. $5.95 pp. 246-248

David L. Lewis

The Exception: The Story of the Ashland Oil and Refining Company. By Otto J. Scott. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968. Pp. 450. $6.95 pp. 248-249

Gerald D. Nash

The Development of the Aerospace Industry on Long Island: Volume I, 1904–1964. Edited byWilliam K. Kaiser. Pp. x + 647. $6.00. - Volume II, Financial and Related Aspects. Edited byWilliam K. Kaiser and Charles E. Stonier. Pp. vi + 375. $6.00. - Volume III, A Chronology, 1833–1965. By Raymond V. Discalla. Pp. vi + 98. $3.00. Hempstead, New York, Hofstra University, 1968 pp. 249-251

G. R. Simonson

Time, Inc.: The Intimate History of A Publishing Enterprise, 1923–1941. By Robert T. Elson. New York, Atheneum Publishers, 1968. Pp. x + 500. $10.00 pp. 251-253

Edward L. Anthony

The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, 1933 to 1953. By Erik Barnouw. New York, Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. 369. $8.50 pp. 253-254

Arthur E. Thiessen

Volume 43, issue 1, 1969

Supreme Life: The History of a Negro Life Insurance Company, 1919–1962 pp. 1-20

Robert C. Puth

The Emergence of the Professional Manager in the Scottish Coal Industry, 1760–1815 pp. 21-38

Baron F. Duckham

The Colonial Office and British Business before World War I: A Case Study pp. 39-58

Vincent Ponko

Origins of the American Tobacco Company pp. 59-76

Patrick G. Porter

New Perspectives on the Disposal of Western Lands in Nineteenth Century America pp. 77-83

Peter D. McClelland

A Rope Of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution. By Michael G. Kammen. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1968. Pp. xviii + 349. $10.00 pp. 90-91

Jacob M. Price

Church Wealth In Mexico. By Michael P. Costeloe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. ix + 139. $5.50 pp. 91-92

Robert A. Potash

Betriebswirtschaftliche Aufschlüsse Aus Der Fuggerzeit. By Hartmut Schiele and Manfred Ricker. Nürnberger Abhandlungen zu dei Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften No. 25. Berlin, Dunker and Humblot, 1967. Pp. 221. DM 36.60, paperback pp. 93-93

Fritz Redlich

The Grain Trade in the Old Northwest. By John G. Clark. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 324. $7.50 pp. 93-94

Harry N. Scheiber

Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress. By Leonard P. Curry. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. Pp. ix + 302. $8.50 pp. 95-96

Stanley Engerman

August Belmont: A Political Biography: By Irving Katz. New York, Columbia University Press, 1968. Pp. xiv + 296. $10.00 pp. 96-97

John Syrett

The Molding of American Banking: Men and Ideas. By Fritz Redlich. New York and London, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968. Pp. xxx + x + 334 + iv + 517. $35.00 pp. 97-98

J. P. B.,

Mutual Savings Banks: The Evolution of a Financial Intermediary. By Weldon Welfling. Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University Press, 1968. Pp. ix + 307. $7.95 pp. 98-99

Paul B. Trescott

The History of the Institute of Chartered Accountants In England & Wales, 1880–1965, & Its Founder Accountancy Bodies, 1870–1880. Edited by Sir Harold Howitt. New York, Humanities Press, 1966. Pp. xiv + 269. $8.50 pp. 99-100

Stephen A. Zeff

The Stock Exchange of Melbourne and the Victorian Economy, 1852–1900. By A. R. Hall. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1968. Pp. xiii + 267. $9.00 pp. 100-101

Frank Strahan

Money and American Society, 1865–1880. By Walter T. K. Nugent. New York, Free Press, 1968. Pp. xvi + 336. $7.95 pp. 101-102

George L. Anderson

Wages in Practice and Theory: McCormick and International Harvester, 1860–1960. By Robert Ozanne. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. Pp. xiii + 181. $7.50 pp. 103-104

Herbert D. Werner

Railroads and Regulation, 1877–1916. By Gabriel Kolko. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1965. Pp. vii + 273. $5.00 pp. 104-106

Harry N. Scheiber

Competition and Railroad Price Discrimination: Legal Precedent and Economic Policy. By Jordan Jay Hillman. Evanston, Illinois, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, 1968. Pp. xii + 164. $7.50 pp. 106-107

Gerald D. Nash

Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850–1914. By Richard Graham. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1968. Pp. xv + 385. $9.50 pp. 107-108

Winthrop R. Wright

The Port of Houston: A History. By Marilyn McAdams Sibley. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1968. Pp. xvi + 246. $6.95 pp. 109-109

John S. Spratt

Australia's Two-Airline Policy. By Stanley Brogden. New York, Cambridge University Press for Melbourne University Press, 1968. Pp. xiv + 235. $11.50 pp. 110-111

Alex Hunter

Big Business in Japanese Politics. By Chitoshi Yanaga. Yale Studies in Political Science No. 22. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1968. Pp. ix + 371. $8.75 pp. 111-113

Kozo Yamamura

Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience Since The Meija Era. Edited by Lawrence Klein and Kazushi Ohkawa. Homewood, Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, Inc. for the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1968. Pp. xv + 424. $11.35 pp. 113-114

Kozo Yamamura