Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 41, issue 4, 1967

The Changing Concept of “Human Nature” in the Literature of American Advertising pp. 335-357

Merle Curti

The Growth Strategies of Southern Railroads, 1865-1893* pp. 358-377

Maury Klein and Kozo Yamamura

The “Industrial-Military Complex” in Historical Perspective: World War I pp. 378-403

Paul A. C. Koistinen

A “Dollar-a-Year Man” in Government: George N. Peek and the War Industries Board pp. 404-420

Robert D. Cuff

James Claypoole's Letter Book, London and Philadelphia, 1681–1684. Edited by Marion Balderston. San Marino, California, The Huntington Library, 1967. Pp. 256. $7.50 pp. 438-439

William I. Roberts

Jean Pellet, Commerçant de Gros, 1694–1772: Contribution a l'Étude du Négoce Bordelais au XVIIIe Siècle. By Jean Cavignac. École Pratique des Hautes Études, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques: “Affaires et Gens d'Affaires,” XXXI. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1967. Pp. 406. 58 fr pp. 439-441

Perry Viles

J. C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England, 1814–1851. By W. O. Henderson. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1966. Pp. xvi + 184. $7.50 pp. 441-442

J. Clayburn La Force

Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads: A Study in the Nineteenth-Century Railroad Investment Process. By Arthur M. Johnson and Barry E. Supple. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967. (Harvard Studies in Business History, XXIII) Pp. xiv + 392. $10.00 pp. 442-443

Anonymous

Andrew Brown and Cypress Lumbering in the old Southwest. By John Hebron Moore. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1967. Pp. xv + 180. $6.00 pp. 443-445

Merl E. Reed

Albert Ballin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany, 1888–1918. By Lamar Cecil. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1967. Pp. xxi + 388. $9.00 pp. 445-446

John L. Snell

Industrialization, Immigrants, and Americanizers: The view from Milwaukee, 1866–1921. By Gerd Korman. Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Pp. x + 225. $4.50 pp. 446-448

Carl N. Degler

Roger Sherman and the Independent oil Men. By Chester McArthur Destler. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1967. Pp. vii + 305. $8.75 pp. 448-449

Gerald T. White

Agricoltura e Credito Nell'Esperienza del Banco di Sicilia tra L'800 ed il '900. By Giuseppe Lo Giudice. (“Studi e Riceiche dell a Facoltà di Economia”) Catania, Università degli Studi, 1966. Pp. 288. L. 2500 pp. 449-450

Roland Sarti

Profits in the British Economy, 1909–1938. By G. D. N. Worswick and D. G. Tipping. New York, Augustus M. Kelly, 1967. Pp. 155. $6.00 pp. 450-452

Derek H. Aldcroft

Die Deutsche Bankenkrise 1931: Finanzen und Politik. By Karl Erich Born. München, R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1967. Pp. 286 pp. 452-454

Hans Jaeger

The Attitude of Business Toward American Foreign Policy, 1900–1916. By Herbert Ershkowitz. The Pennsylvania State University Studies No. 21. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1967. Pp. ii + 77. $1.00 pp. 454-455

Lawrence E. Gelfand

Law and the Balance of Power: The Automobile Manufacturers and Their Dealers By Stewart Macaulay. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1966. Pp. xix + 224. $5.00 pp. 455-456

Charles E. Edwards

Volume 41, issue 3, 1967

John Cockerill in Southern Russia, 1885-1905: A Study of Aggressive Foreign Entrepreneurship pp. 243-256

John P. McKay

The Scholastics, Usury, and Foreign Exchange pp. 257-271

Raymond de Roover

The Civil Aeronautics Board and the All-Cargo Airlines: The Early Years pp. 272-284

Philip B. Schary

Early American Checks and an Example of Their Use pp. 285-302

Fritz Redlich and Webster M. Christman

Shipping Enterprise and Management, 1830–1939: Harrisons of Liverpool. By Francis E. Hyde with contributions from J. R. Harris and A. M. Bourn. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1967. Pp. xx + 208. 42s pp. 316-318

S. G. Sturmey

Biddle's Bank: The Crucial Years. By Jean Alexander Wilburn. New York, Columbia University Press, 1967. Pp. 149. $6.50 pp. 318-319

J. Van Fenstermaker

The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath. By Benjamin Boyce. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 304. $7.95 pp. 319-320

F. G. James

Iron Maker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. By Charles B. Dew. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1966. Pp. ix + 345. $10.00 pp. 321-322

James D. Norris

Bankers and Cattlemen: The Stocks-and-Bonds, Havana-Cigar, Mahogany-and-Leather Side of the Cowboy Era: Politics, Investors, and Operators from 1870 to 1900. By Gene M. Gressley. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Pp. xix + 320 + viii. $6.95 pp. 322-323

A. Ray Stephens

Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the twentieth century. By Robert L. Brandfon. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967. Pp. xi + 227. $6.95 pp. 323-325

Harold D. Woodman

The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830–1910: Professional Cultures in Conflict. By Monte A. Calvert. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. Pp. xviii + 296. $8.50 pp. 325-326

Edward W. Sloan

Wasag: Die Geschichte Eines Unternehmens, 1891–1966. By Wolfram Fischer. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1966. Pp. 254. DM 39,60 pp. 326-328

Eugene C. McCreary

La Caisse des Dépots: Cent Cinquante ans d'Histoire Financière. By Roger Priouret. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1966. Pp. 508 pp. 328-329

Charles K. Warner

Economic Development and American Foreign Policy, 1943–62. By David A. Baldwin. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1966. Pp. vi + 291. $7.95 pp. 329-330

Thomas V. DiBacco

Apostles of the Self-Made Man. By John G. Cawelti. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1965. Pp. xiv + 279. $6.95 pp. 330-331

Maxwell Bloomfield

The Railroad and the Space Program: An Exploration in Historical Analogy. Edited by Bruce Mazlish. Cambridge, Mass., The M.I.T. Press, 1965. Pp. xix, 223. $7.50 pp. 331-334

Julius Rubin

Volume 41, issue 2, 1967

Echoes from ‘Zenith:’ Reactions of American Businessmen to Babbitt pp. 123-140

Thomas S. Hines

The Founding of Mitsubishi: A Case Study in Japanese Business History* pp. 141-160

Kozo Yamamura

Foreign Interest Remittances by the United States, 1785–1787: A Story of Malfeasance pp. 161-176

Donald G. Tailby

Ecclesiae Mercatorum and the Rise of Merchant Colonies pp. 177-197

Vsevolod Slessarev

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. By Rondo Cameron, with the collaboration of Olga Crisp, Hugh T. Patrick, and Richard Tilly. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xv + 349. $6.50 pp. 219-222

Sidney Pollard

Histoire de la Maison Rothschild: Volume I: Des Origines à 1848. By Bertrand Gille. Travaux de droit, d'économie de sociologie et de sciences politiques, Number 39. Geneva: Librairie Droz., 1965. Pp. 493, 36 fr. s pp. 222-224

David S. Landes

The Development of Technical Education in France: 1500–1850. By Frederick B. Artz. Cambridge, Mass., The M.I.T. Press, 1966. Pp. x + 274. $7.95 pp. 224-225

Herman Freudenberger

La Compagnie des Mines de la Loire, 1846–1854: Essai sur l'Apparition de la Grande Industrie Capitaliste en France. By Pierre Guillaume. Publications de la Facultés des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Clermont-Ferrand. Deuxième Série. Fascicule XXIV. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966. Pp. 248. F26 pp. 225-227

Charles E. Freedeman

Enterprise and Adventure: The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World. By Ruth Pike. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 243. $6.75 pp. 227-228

Robert S. Smith

Merchant Campbell, 1769–1846: A Study of Colonial Trade. By Margaret Steven. New York, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 360. $9.75 pp. 228-229

J. H. Parry

The Wagonmasters: High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880. By Henry Pickering Walker. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Pp. xii + 347. $5.95 pp. 229-230

William Goetzmann

Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891–1966. By Leonard J. Arrington. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1966. Pp. xiv + 234. $7.50 pp. 230-232

Richard C. Berner

American Baseball: From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System. By David Quentin Voigt. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Pp. xxxi + 336. $5.95 pp. 232-233

George W. Hilton

A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States. By Erik Barnouw. New York, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 344. $8.50 pp. 233-234

Arthur E. Thiessen

Courtier to the Crowd: the Story of Ivy Lee and the Development of Public Relations. By Ray Eldon Hiebert. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi + 351. $6.95 pp. 234-235

George S. Gibb

Entstehung und Wandlungen der Zielsetzungen: der Struktur und der Wirkungen von Arbeitgeberverbanden. By Roswitha Leckebusch. Untersuchungen über Gruppen und Verbände, Band 3. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1966. Pp. 257. DM 48 pp. 236-237

Hans Jaeger

Entstehung und Wirkungsweise von Fachverbänden der Nahrungs- und Genussmittelindustrie. By Harold König. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1966. Pp. 279. DM 54.60 pp. 237-239

Arthur Schweitzer

Soviet Economic Controversies: The Emerging Marketing Concept and Changes in Planning, 1960–1965. By Jere L. Felker. Cambridge, Mass.The M.I.T. Press, 1966. Pp. x + 172. $5.95 pp. 239-240

Marshall I. Goldman

Age of Industrial Violence 1910–1915: The Activities and Findings of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations. By Graham AdamsJr, New York, Columbia University Press, 1966. Pp. xii + 316. $8.50. - Labor and Liberty: The La Follette Committee and the New Deal. By Jerold S. Auerbach. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1966. Pp. xi + 246. $6.50 pp. 240-242

Louis P. Galambos

Volume 41, issue 1, 1967

The “Western Land Business:” The Story of Easley & Willingham, Speculators pp. 1-20

Robert P. Swierenga

American Business and Foreign Aid: The Eisenhower Years pp. 21-35

Thomas V. DiBacco

What Price Style? The Fabric-Advisory Function of the Drygoods Commission Merchant, 1850-1880 pp. 36-61

Hansjörg Siegenthaler

Foreign-Owned Railways in Argentina: A Case Study of Economic Nationalism pp. 62-93

Winthrop R. Wright

The Present State of Business History in France pp. 94-103

Claude Fohlen

Invention and Economic Growth. By Jacob Schmookler. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 332. $9.95 pp. 110-112

Lance E. Davis

Les Banques Européennes et L'Industrialization Internationale dans la Première Moitié du XIXe Siècle. By Maurice Levy-LeBoyer. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1964. Pp. 813 pp. 112-113

Claude Fohlen

A Hundred Years of Pastoral Banking: A History of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company, 1863–1963. By J. D. Bailey. New York, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 292. $8.80 pp. 113-115

Clark C. Spence

Grenville M. Dodge: Soldier, Politician, Railroad Pioneer. By Stanley P. Hirshson. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1966. Pp. xiv + 334. $10.00 pp. 115-116

Maury Klein

Claus Spreckels: The Sugar King in Hawaii. By Jacob Adler. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1966. Pp. xii + 339. $8.00 pp. 116-117

John H. Kemble

Verbände der Deutschen Papiererzeugenden Industrie, 1870–1933. By Christian Kurtz. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1966. Pp. 240. DM 45,80 pp. 117-118

Walter Froehlich

Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany, 1914–1918. By Gerald D. Feldman. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi + 572. $12.50 pp. 118-120

Theodore Ropp

Postwar Economic Growth in Japan. Edited by Ryutaro Komiya. Translated by Robert S. Ozaki. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xviii + 260. $7.50 pp. 120-121

Kozo Yamamura

Liquidity Preferences of Commercial Banks. By George R. Morrison. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 163. $7.50 pp. 121-122

Herman E. Krooss