Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 37, issue 4, 1963

The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Rhode Island History* pp. 319-344

Peter J. Coleman

Entrepreneurship and Western Development: The Case of Micajah T. Williams* pp. 345-368

Harry N. Scheiber

Systematic Management: Design for Organizational Recoupling in American Manufacturing Firms pp. 369-391

Joseph A. Litterer

A British Firm on the American West Coast, 1869–1914* pp. 392-415

Morton Rothstein

Some Recent Developments of Business History in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland pp. 416-436

Wolfram Fischer

The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Volume III, Economic Organization and Policies in the Middle Ages. Edited by M. M. Postan, E. E. Rich, and Edward Miller. Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1963. Pp. xv + 696. $13.50 pp. 456-457

Fritz Redlich

Banking and Finance Among Jews in Renaissance Italy: A Critical Edition of “The Eternal Life” (Haye Olam). By Yehiel Nissim da Pisa. Translated and edited by Gilbert S. Rosenthal. New York, Bloch Publishing Co., 1962. Pp. viii + 182 + 98. $7.50 pp. 458-459

Raymond de Roover

Money, Prices, and Foreign Exchange in Fourteenth-Century France. By Harry A. Miskimin. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. 215. $6.75 pp. 459-460

Richard W. Emery

The Maritime Commerce of Colonial Philadelphia. By Arthur L. Jensen. Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1963. Pp. viii + 312. $4.75 pp. 461-462

Benjamin W. Labaree

Joseph John Gurney: Banker, Reformer, and Quaker. By David E. Swift. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1962. Pp. xvii + 304. $6.50 pp. 462-463

Thomas P. Govan

West of the Mountains: James Sinclair and the Hudson's Bay Company. By D. Geneva Lent. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1963. Pp. xiv + 334. $6.75 pp. 463-464

Kenneth W. Porter

A Work of Giants: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. By Wesley S. Griswold. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1962. Pp. 367. $6.95. - The Great Iron Trail: The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. By Robert W. Howard. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Pp. 376. $6.50 pp. 464-465

Wallace D. Farnham

Kansas City and the Railroads: Community Policy in the Growth of a Regional Metropolis. By Charles N. Glaab. Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1962. Pp. xii + 260. $6.50 pp. 466-466

Charles J. Kennedy

Der Rheinisch-Westfälische Unternehmer, 1834–1879: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Des Deutschen Bürgertums im 19. Jahrhundert. By Friedrich Zunkel. Köln, Westdeutscher Verlag Köln und Opladen, 1962. Pp. 284. DM. 38, 50 pp. 467-468

Rudolf Braun

The Life Insurance Enterprise, 1885–1910: A Study in the Limits of Corporate Power. By Morton Keller. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. xii + 338. $7.25 pp. 469-470

Abram T. Collier

Formative Years in the Far West: A History of Standard Oil Company of California and Predecessors Through 1919. By Gerald T. White. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. Pp. xv + 694. $7.50 pp. 470-471

Joe B. Frantz

The Dynamic Natural Gas Industry: The Description of an American Industry from the Historical, Technical, Legal, Financial, and Economic Standpoints. By Alfred M. Leeston, John A. Crichton, and John C. Jacobs. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Pp. xviii + 464. $9.95 pp. 472-473

Robert B. Eckles

Betriebskonzentration, Unternehmengskonzentration und Konzernierung: Eine Statistisce Untersuchung Über Das Ausmass Der Konzentrationsentwicklung in Der Westdeutschen Industrie. By Günter Sieber. Köln, Bund-Verlag, 1963. Pp. 154. DM. 25,50 pp. 473-475

Hans-Helmut Kuhnke

Competition in the Synthetic Rubber Industry. By Charles F. PhillipsJr., Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. xii + 281. $7.50 pp. 475-476

Nancy Norton

Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933–1962. By Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. Pp. xviii + 508. $8.95 pp. 476-478

John B. Rae

American Viking: The Saga of Hans Isbrandtsen and His Shipping Empire. By James Dugan. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Pp. xii + 305. $5.95 pp. 478-479

John H. Kemble

Promotion and Control of Industry in Postwar France. By John Sheahan. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. 301. $5.95 pp. 479-480

James M. Laux

The Coming of the Age of Steel. By Theodore A. Wertime. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. 330. $6.95. - The Epic of Steel. By Douglas Alan Fisher. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Pp. 344. $6.75 pp. 480-481

H. J. Habakkuk

Volume 37, issue 3, 1963

The Development of Modern Financial Reporting Practices among American Manufacturing Corporations pp. 135-168

David F. Hawkins

Illinois Business Incorporations, 1816–1869 pp. 169-181

John W. Eilert

The Changing Nature of Innovation in Marketing: A Study of Selected Business Leaders, 1852-1958 pp. 182-199

Alvin J. Silk and Louis William Stern

Torrey's Frontier Post No. 2: A Business History pp. 201-216

George R. Nielsen

The Takashima Mine: British Capital and Japanese Industrialization pp. 217-239

John McMaster

British Business History: A Review of Recent Books pp. 240-250

Francis E. Hyde

Contract of the Painter Albrecht Dürer Regarding the Sale of his Prints, 1497 pp. 266-267

Anonymous

The Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States. By John Chamberlain. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Pp. xix + 282. $5.95 pp. 279-279

Harold F. Williamson

The Age of the Manager: A Treasury of our Times. Edited by Robert and Seon Manley. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1962. Pp. 492. $8.50 pp. 279-280

Alfred Chandler

British Economic Growth, 1688–1959: Trends and Structure. By Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole. Cambridge, England, The University Press, 1962. Pp. xvi + 348. $11.50. - Abstract of British Historical Statistics. By B. R. Mitchell with Phyllis Deane. Cambridge, England, The University Press, 1962. Pp. xii + 513. $10.00 pp. 281-283

Barry E. Supple

Geschichte Der Industriellen Mitbestimmung In Deutschland. By Hans J. Teuteberg. J. C. B. Tübingen Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1961. Pp. vii + 534. Brosch, DM 45.-; Lw., DM 50.- pp. 283-284

Herman Freudenberger

Fortunato Cervelli, Ferrarese “Neofita” E La Politica Commerciale Dell' Impero. By Alberto Caracciolo. “Richerche sul Mercante del Settecento,” Pubbl. N. I della Facoltà di Economica e Commercio dell'Università degli Studi di Urbino, Milano, A. Giuffrè, Editore. Pp. viii + 227. L. 2.000. - Francesco Trionfi, Capitalista E Magnate D'ancona. By Alberto Caracciolo. “Ricerche sul Mercante del Settecento,” Pubbl. N. II della Facoltà di Economica e Commercio dell'Università degli Studi di Urbino, Milano, A. Giuffrè, Editore. Pp. viii + 115. L. 1.000 pp. 284-289

Aldo De Maddalena

Moses Brown: Reluctant Reformer. By Mack Thompson. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1962. Pp. xii + 316. $7.50 pp. 289-290

Peter J. Coleman

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies. By Murray N. Rothbard. New York, Columbia University Press, 1962. Pp. vi + 261. $6.00 pp. 290-291

Nathan Miller

Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen. By Julius Grodinsky. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. Pp. xxiv + 443. $7.50 pp. 291-293

Ralph W. Hidy

Rebel of the Rockies: The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. By Robert G. Athearn. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1962. Pp. xv + 395. $10.00 pp. 293-294

Leonard J. Arrington

Not Without Honor: The Life of John H. Reagan. By Ben H. Procter. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1962. Pp. xiv + 362. $6.00 pp. 294-295

James A. Tinsley

John D. Rockefeller's Secret Weapon. By Albert Z. Carr. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962. Pp. x + 383. $6.95 pp. 295-296

Muriel E. Hidy

The Sky's the Limit: The History of the Airlines. By Charles J. KellyJr., New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1963. Pp. 317. $5.95 pp. 297-298

John B. Rae

Flags of Convenience: An International Legal Study. By Boleslaw Adam Boczek. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962. Pp. xvi + 323. $8.00 pp. 298-299

John G. B. Hutchins

Entrepreneurs of Lebanon: The Role of the Business Leader in a Developing Economy. By Yusif A. Sayigh. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962. Pp. xvi + 181. $4.50 pp. 299-300

Bert F. Hoselitz

Australia and New Zealand Bank: The Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank Of Australia Limited, 1828–1951. By S. J. Butlin. London and Melbourne, Longmans, Green & Company, Ltd., 1961. Pp. 459. A£2/5s pp. 300-302

Geoffrey Blainey

Carl Zeiss Jena: Einst und Jetzt. By a group of authors under the direction of Wolfgang Schumann. East Berlin, Rütten & Loening, 1962. Pp. 942 pp. 302-303

Wolfram Fischer

The Economics of the Electrical Machinery Industry. By Jules Backman. New York, New York University Press, 1962. Pp. xxxiii + 374. $10.00 pp. 303-305

Howard F. Bennett

Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement. By Robert H. Wiebe. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962. Pp. ix + 283. $6.00 pp. 305-306

Thomas C. Cochran

Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces that have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools. By Raymond E. Callahan. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. 273. $5.50 pp. 307-308

Frederick Rudolph

The American College and University: A History. By Frederick Rudolph. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1962. Pp ix + 516. $6.75 pp. 308-309

Irwin G. Wyllie

Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920's. By Burl Noggle. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1962. Pp. ix + 234. $6.00 pp. 309-310

Richard Lowitt

Herbert Hoover and Economic Diplomacy: Department of Commerce Policy, 1921–1928. By Joseph Brandes. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962. Pp. xiv + 237. $4.50 pp. 310-312

Benjamin J. Klebaner

Insull. By Forrest McDonald. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. xii + 350. $4.95 pp. 312-315

Vincent P. Carosso

Capitalism and Freedom. By Milton Friedman with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. vi + 202. $3.95 pp. 315-316

Oscar Handlin

Wealth and Power in America: An Analysis of Social Class and Income Distribution. By Gabriel Kolko. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Pp. 178 + ix. $4.85 pp. 316-317

Saul Engelbourg

The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors. A Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research and the Committee on Economic Growth of the Social Science Research Council, National Bureau of Economic Research Special Conference Series No. 13. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. xi + 635. $12.50 pp. 317-318

Ralph L. Andreano

Volume 37, issue 1-2, 1963

Fashion: Its Sense of History — Its Selling Power pp. 1-2

Adolph I. Klein

A Needed Distinction in Fashion Study pp. 3-4

Fritz Redlich

The Importance of Fashions in Taste to Business History: An Introductory Essay pp. 5-36

Dwight E. Robinson

Fashion, Sumptuary Laws, and Business pp. 37-48

Herman Freudenberger

To Set a Smart Board: Fashion as the Decisive Factor in the Development of the Scottish Linen Damask Industry pp. 49-58

Adolph S. Cavallo

The Case of the Dying Kimono: The Influence of Changing Fashions on the Development of the Japanese Woolen Industry pp. 59-80

Keiichirō Nakagawa and Henry Rosovsky

“From Sputniks to Panties:” Is Economic Development Really That Easy? pp. 81-93

Marshall I. Goldman

A Conjecture about Fashion and Vertical Process Integration pp. 94-97

Richard S. Rosenbloom

The World of Business: A Selected Library of the Literature of Business from the Accounting Code of Hammurabi to the 20th Century “Administrator's Prayer.” Edited by Edward C. Bursk, Donald T. Clark, and Ralph W. Hidy. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1962. 4 vols. Pp. 2,655. $29.95 pp. 108-110

Paul W. Gates

The Emergence of a National Economy. By Curtis P. Nettels. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962. Pp. xvii + 424. $7.50 pp. 110-111

Carter Goodrich

The Indian Traders. By Frank McNitt. Norman, The University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. Pp. xiv + 393. $5.95 pp. 111-113

Robert G. Athearn

Canals and Economic Development. By Carter Goodrich, Julius Rubin, H. Jerome Cranmer, and Harvey H. Segal. New York, Columbia University Press, 1961. Pp. x + 303. $7.50 pp. 113-114

Robert Fogel

Atlantic Conquest: The Men and Ships of the Glorious Age of Steam. By Warren Tute. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1962. Pp. 247. $5.95 pp. 114-115

David B. Tyler

Gould's Millions. By Richard O'Connor. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, 1962. Pp. 335. $4.95 pp. 115-116

William T. Doherty

Portrait in Oil: How the Ohio Oil Company Grew to Become Marathon. By Hartzell Spence. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Pp. 357. $5.95 pp. 116-117

Gerald T. White

The Great Lakes Car Ferries. By George W. Hilton. Berkeley, Calif., Howell-North Books, 1962. Pp. 282. $6.00 pp. 117-118

Daniel O. Fletcher

Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840–1915. By Nollie Hickman. University, Miss., The University of Mississippi Press for the Forest History Society, Inc., 1962. Pp. viii + 306. $7.50 pp. 119-120

Robert S. Maxwell

The Story of Cyprus Mines Corporation. By David Lavender. San Marino, Calif., The Huntington Library, 1962. Pp. 387. $7.50 pp. 120-121

Willard Thorp

American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century. By H. J. Habakkuk. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1962. Pp. 222. $6.00 pp. 121-122

William N. Parker

Histoire de la Famille Schneider et du Creusot. By Joseph-Antoine Roy. Paris, Marcel Rivière, 1962. Pp. 156. 10 N.F pp. 122-123

Claude Fohlen

Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931. By Edward W. Bennett. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962. Pp. 342. $7.50 pp. 124-125

Amos Simpson

Small-Scale Industry in the Soviet Union. By Adam Kaufman. New York, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1962. Pp. 95. $2.00 pp. 125-126

Marshall I. Goldman

The Development of Marketing Thought. By Robert Bands. Homewood, Ill., Richard D. Irwin Inc., 1962. Pp. 284. $5.50 pp. 126-127

Orange A. Smalley

Fifty Years of Education for Business at the University of Texas. By C. Aubrey Smith. Austin, Bureau of Business Research, College of Business Administration, University of Texas, 1962. Pp. 188. $3.00 pp. 127-129

Clarence C. Walton

The Corporation in the Emergent American Society. By W. Lloyd Warner. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1962. Pp. 64 + xx. $3.00 pp. 129-130

Richard S. Kirkendall

State Regulation of Corporate Financial Practices: The California Experience. By Norbeit A. Schlei. (The George H. Leatheibee Lectures, 1961.) Boston, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1962. Pp. 65. $2.00 pp. 130-131

Gerald D. Nash

The Making of Economic Society. By Robert L. Heilbionei. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962. Pp. xi + 241. $4.95 pp. 131-133

Douglas F. Dowd