Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 40, issue 4, 1966

The Dark Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, 1922–1926 pp. 403-431

Carl C. Erwin

God and Dun & Bradstreet, 1841–1851 pp. 432-450

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

J. R. Walsh of Chicago: A Case Study in Banking and Politics, 1881–1905 pp. 451-466

Joel A. Tarr

American Negro Newspapers, 1880–1914* pp. 467-490

Emma Lou Thornbrough

The Economic Effects of Regulation: The Trunk-Line Railroad Cartels and the Interstate Commerce Commission Before 1900. By Paul W. MacAvoy. Cambridge, Mass., The M.I.T. Press, 1965. Pp. ix + 275. $10.00 pp. 504-506

Morton Rothstein

Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792–1854. By Ronald E. Shaw. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1966. Pp. xii + 449. $8.00 pp. 506-507

Ralph D. Gray

War Drums and Wagon Wheels: The Story of Russell, Majors, and Waddell. By Raymond W. Settle and Mary Lund Settle. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1966. Pp. x + 268. $5.95 pp. 507-508

Francis Paul Prucha

George Smith's Money: A Scottish Investor in America. By Alice E. Smith. Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1966. Pp. vii + 197. $4.50 pp. 508-510

Irene D. Neu

The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South. By William Kauffman Scarborough. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 256. $7.50 pp. 510-511

Franklee G. Whartenby

New Orleans and the Railroads: the Struggle for Commercial Empire, 1830–1860. By Merl E. Reed. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1966. Pp. 172. $5.00 pp. 512-513

Robert E. Roeder

Sozialer und Kultureller Wandel in Einem Landlichen Industriegebiet: (Zürcher Oberland) Unter Einwirkung Des Maschinen- Und Fabrikwesens Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert. By Rudolf Braun. Zürich, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1965. Pp. 368. DM 26 pp. 513-514

Gerald D. Feldman

The Merchant of Revolution: The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus), 1867–1924. By Z. A. B. Zeman and W. B. Scharlau. New York, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 306. $7.20 pp. 515-516

Marshall Goldman

Ships That Sail no More, Marine Transportation From San Diego to Puget Sound, 1910–1940. By Giles T. Brown. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 287. $7.50 pp. 516-517

Richard Barsness

Master of Precision: Henry M. Leland. By MrsWilfred C. Leland and Minnie Dubbs Millbrook, with an Introduction by Allan Nevins and Frank E. Hill. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1966. Pp. 296. $7.95 pp. 517-519

William Greenleaf

Kohler on Strike: Thirty Years of Conflict. By Walter H. Uphoff. Boston, Beacon Press, 1966. Pp. xx + 449. $7.50 pp. 519-520

Albert A. Blum

Contract Law in America: A Social and Economic Case Study. By Lawrence M. Friedman. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x + 280. $6.50 pp. 521-523

Peter J. Coleman

Financial Institutions and Industrialization in the Rhineland, 1815–1870. By Richard Tilly. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1966. pp. viii + 197. $6.50 pp. 523-525

Fritz Redlich

Volume 40, issue 3, 1966

The Performance of the British Machine-Tool Industry in the Interwar Years* pp. 281-296

Derek H. Aldcroft

Individualism and Association in French Industry, 1820–1848 pp. 297-320

Peter N. Stearns

The Missouri and Kansas Zinc Miners' Association, 1899–1905 pp. 321-334

James D. Norris

The Study of the History of Industrial Enterprises in Czechoslovakia since 1945 pp. 335-354

Bohumil Lehár and Milan Myška

The Economic Evolution of the Modern World: A Review Article pp. 355-368

S. G. Checkland

The Vital Few: American Economic Progress and its Protagonists. By Jonathan Hughes. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Pp. vi + 504. $6.95 pp. 377-379

Edward C. Kirkland

American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-Bellum Economy. By Albeit Fishlow. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965. Pp. xv + 452. $10.00 pp. 379-382

Barry E. Supple

The Genesis of Modern Management: A Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. By Sidney Pollard. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965. Pp. 328. $7.95 pp. 382-383

Thomas P. Hughes

The First Industrial Revolution. By Phyllis Deane. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. viii + 295. $8.00 pp. 383-384

Rondo Cameron

Affaires et Politique: Recherches sur le Commerce de Genève au XVIIe Siècle. By Anne-Marie Piuz. Geneva, Memoires et documents publiés par la société d'histoire et d'archeologie de Genève, Vol. XLII, Alex. Jullien, Librarie, 1964. Pp. 456 pp. 385-386

Charles K. Warner

The Industrial Archaeology of the East Midlands (Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and the Adjoining Parts of Derbyshire). By David M. Smith, London, David & Charles, 1965. Pp. 304. 45s pp. 385-385

Bruce Sinclair

Agents and Merchants: British Colonial Policy and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1763–1775. By Jack M. Sosin. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1965. Pp. xvi + 267. $5.50 pp. 387-388

George A. Billias

John Roach, Maritime Entrepreneur: The Years as Naval Contractor, 1862–1886. By Leonard A. Swann Jr. Annapolis, United States Naval Institute, 1965. Pp. xv + 301. $7.50 pp. 388-390

John G. B. Hutchins

Origins of Small Business Metal Fabricators and Machinery Makers in New England, 1890–1957. By James H. Soltow. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, Transactions, New Series, Volume 55, Part 10, 1965. Pp. 58. $2.00 pp. 390-391

Warren C. Scoville

Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840–1937. By Chi-ming Hou. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, Harvard East Asian Series, Number 21, 1965. Pp. xiii+ 306. $8.95 pp. 391-392

Ellsworth C. Carlson

The Malayan Tin Industry to 1914 with Special Reference to the States of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang. By Wong Lin Ken. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 302. $6.50 pp. 393-394

Chi-ming Hou

Sudan Transport: A History of Railway, Marine, and River Services in the Republic of the Sudan. By Richard Hill. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xiv + 188. $6.75 pp. 394-395

R. S. Rungta

American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents. By Mira Wilkins and Frank Ernest Hill. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. $10.00. Pp. xiii + 541 pp. 395-396

Arthur L. Honiker

The World of Cyrus Eaton. By Marcus Gleisser. New York, A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1965. Pp. 337. $6.00 pp. 397-398

Eli Goldston

Railroad Mergers and Abandonments. By Michael Conant. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1964. Pp. xiii + 211. $7.50 pp. 398-399

James H. Lemly

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence. By Ellis W. Hawley. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 525. $10.00 pp. 399-401

Sidney Fine

Volume 40, issue 2, 1966

Gresham's Law and the Suffolk System: A Misapplied Epigram pp. 149-166

J. Clayburn La Force

Three Mercantilistic Proto-Factories pp. 167-189

Herman Freudenberger

Entrepreneurial Activity in New York during the American Revolution pp. 190-212

Bernard Mason

A Manufacturer in Wartime: Du Pont, 1860–1865 pp. 213-236

Harold B. Hancock and Norman B. Wilkinson

The Kress Library of Business and Economics and Some of Its Treasures pp. 237-249

Eleanor L. Nicholes and Dorothea D. Reeves

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 1835–1915: The Patrician at Bay. By Edward C. Kirkland. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965. Pp. viii + 256. $5.95 pp. 258-259

Gabriel Kolko

Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines. By Richard C. Overton. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Pp. xxviii + 623. $10.00 pp. 260-261

Gilbert C. Fite

John Owens: Manchester Merchant. By B. W. Clapp. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1965. Pp. viii + 193. 37s. 6d pp. 262-264

Robert A. Davison

The Enterprising Colonials: Society on the Eve of the Revolution. By William S. Sachs and Ari Hoogenboom. Chicago, Argonaut, Inc.1965. Pp. xi + 236. $8.50 pp. 262-262

Lawrence H. Leder

Der Merkantilismus und Die Soziale Mobilität in Europa. By Hermann Kellenbenz. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1965. Pp. 71. DM. 7.40 pp. 262-262

Fritz Redlich

Enterprise in Soap and Chemicals: Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Limited, 1815–1965. By A. E. Musson. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1965. Pp. xi + 384. 37s. 6d pp. 264-266

Sidney Pollard

Government and the Railways in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Henry Parris. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 243. $5.75 pp. 266-266

Leland H. Jenks

The Sierra Leone Diamonds, an Economic Study Covering the Years, 1952–1961. By H. L. van der Laan. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xi + 234. 25s pp. 266-267

W. E. Minchinton

The Mexican Mining Industry, 1890–1950: A Study of the Interaction of Politics, Economics, and Technology. By Marvin D. Bernstein. Albany, State University of New York, 1965. Pp. xvi + 412. $10.00 pp. 267-269

Dwight S. Brothers

Die Wirtschaftsverbände von 1933 bis 1945. By Ingeborg Esenvrein-Rotbe. Berlin, Verlag von Duncker & Humbolt, 1965. Pp. xvi + 209. DM. 36.60 pp. 269-270

Arthur Schweitzer

The Federation of German Industry in Politics. By Gerard Braunthal. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1965. Pp. xx + 389. $7.50 pp. 270-272

Hans Schmitt

Portrait in oil: The Autobiography of Nubar Gulbenkian. By Nubar Gulbenkian. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1965. Pp. 383. $6.50 pp. 272-274

Vartan Gregorian

Dynamics of the United States Automobile Industry. By Charles E. Edwards. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1965. Pp. xiii + 297. $6.75 pp. 274-276

Robert P. Thomas

The Structure and Performance of the Aerospace Industry. By Herman O. Stekler. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1965. Pp. xvi + 223. $6.50 pp. 276-278

G. R. Simonson

Thomas G. Higgins, C.P.A.: An Autobiography. By Thomas G. Higgins. New York, Arthur Young & Co., 1965. Pp. xvi + 347 pp. 278-279

Herman W. Bevis

The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market. By Robert Sobel. New York, The Free Press, 1965. Pp. xiii + 395. $7.95 pp. 279-280

Forrest McDonald

Volume 40, issue 1, 1966

The Origin and Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Asset Accounting* pp. 1-23

Richard P. Brief

The Philadelphia Printer: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Businessman pp. 24-46

Peter J. Parker

The Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, 1831–1843 pp. 47-65

Harry N. Scheiber

The Origins of American Land-Grant Railroad Rates pp. 66-76

Robert M. Sutton

American Businessmen and Consular Service Reform, 1890's to 1906* pp. 77-97

Thomas G. Paterson

The American Automobile: A Brief History. By John B. Rae. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1965. Pp. ix + 265. $5.95 pp. 121-124

Dwight E. Robinson

The Development of the Spanish Textile Industry, 1750–1800. By James Clayburn La ForceJr., Los Angeles, University of California, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1965. Pp. xv + 210. $5.00 pp. 124-125

Herman Freudenberger

America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon: American Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783–1812. By Alfred W. CrosbyJr., Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1965. Pp. vii + 320. $6.50 pp. 125-126

Gordon C. Bjork

The Development of American Commercial Banking, 1782–1837. By J. Van Fenstermaker. Kent, Ohio, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Kent State University, 1965. Pp. xiv + 247. $5.00 pp. 126-127

Harry N. Scheiber

Economic Change in the Civil War Era: Proceedings of a Conference on American Economic Institutional Change, 1850–1873, and the Impact of the Civil War, Held March 12–14, 1964. Edited by David T. Gilchrist and W. David Lewis. Wilmington, Del., Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc., 1965. Pp. ix + 180. $2.00 pp. 128-130

Ralph L. Andreano

Inland Empire: D. C. Corbin and Spokane. By John Fahey. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1965. Pp. x + 270. $5.95 pp. 130-132

John W. Hakola

William Gray Evans, 1855–1924: Portrait of a Western Executive. By Allen du Pont Breck. Denver, University of Denver Press, 1965. Pp. 290. $5.00 pp. 132-133

Robert G. Athearn

Oil, Land, and Politics: the California Career of Thomas Robert Bard. By W. H. Hutchinson. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 2 vols. Pp. xv + 349, viii + 394. $11.95 pp. 133-134

Joe B. Frantz

Riders in the Night. By Hairy Harrison Kroll. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. Pp. 301. $6.00 pp. 134-135

Dewey W. Grantham

Friedrich Harkort, Bd. 1: 1793–1838. By Wolfgang Köllmann. Dusseldorf, Droste Verlag, 1964. Pp. 228 pp. 135-136

Rudolf Braun

The Red Kingdom of Saxony: Lobbying Grounds for Gustav Stresemann, 1901–1909. By Donald WarrenJr., The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, Publisher, 1964. Pp. xii + 705. 11.75 guilders pp. 136-137

John Snell

Russell Sage: The Money King. By Paul Sarnoff. New York, Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1965. Pp. 398. $6.95 pp. 137-139

John F. Stover

Populists, Plungers, and Progressives: A Social History of Stock and Commodity Speculation, 1890–1936. By Cedric B. Cowing. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1965. Pp. vi + 229. $6.50. - The Great Boom and Panic, 1921–1929. By Robert T. Patterson. Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1965. Pp. xiv + 282. $6.50 pp. 139-141

Alfred Roe

The Wizard of Wall Street: The Story of Gerald M. Loeb. By Ralph G. Martin. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1965. Pp. 192. $4.95 pp. 141-142

Robert Sobel

Business and Industrial Libraries in the United States, 1820–1940. By Anthony T. Kruzas. New York, Special Libraries Association, 1965. Pp. 133 pp. 142-143

Laurence J. Kipp

The Sources of Increased Efficiency: A Study of Du Pont Rayon Plants. By Samuel Hollander. Cambridge, Mass., The M.I.T. Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 227. $10.00 pp. 143-145

Melvin Kranzberg

The Filipino Manufacturing Entrepreneur: Agent and Product of Change. By John J. Carroll, S.J. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1965. Pp. xix + 230. $5.75 pp. 145-146

Bert F. Hoselitz

The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan: Essays in the Political Economy of Growth. Edited by William W. Lockwood. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1965. Pp. x + 753. $12.50 pp. 146-148

G. C. Allen