Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 36, issue 4, 1962

The Decline of the Great Lakes Package-Freight Carriers* pp. 387-407

Daniel O. Fletcher

Brandeis and the New Haven-Boston & Maine Merger Battle Revisited* pp. 408-430

Richard M. Abrams

Steamboats on the Rocks: The North Western Union Packet Company, 1866–1873 pp. 431-454

Robert C. Toole

One-Price Policy among Antebellum Country Stores pp. 455-458

James D. Norris

People or Circumstance? pp. 459-462

H. Klompmaker

The Achieving Society. By David C. McClelland. Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1961. Pp. 512. $7.95 pp. 470-473

David M. Potter

Where the Money Comes From: A Brief Account of the Role of Investment Banking in American History and its Place in the Economy Today. By Fred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rimanoczy. Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1961. Pp. 61. $4.95 pp. 473-473

Vincent P. Carosso

The Wealth of the Gentry, 1540–1640. By Alan Simpson. Chicago, University of Chicago Press; Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1961. Pp. 226. $5.00 pp. 473-475

Jacob M. Price

Open Account: A History of the Bank of New South Wales in New Zealand, 1861–1961. By Keith Sinclair and W. F. Mandle. Wellington, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1961. Pp. 266. 49 Shillings, N. Z pp. 475-475

William Woodruff

Anglo-American Steamship Rivalry in China, 1862–1874. By Kwang-Ching Liu. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962. Pp. 218. $5.95 pp. 476-477

John McMaster

Late Ch'ing Finance: Hu Kuang-Yung as an Innovator. By C. John Stanley. Cambridge, Harvard University Press for the East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1961. Pp. 117. $2.50 pp. 477-479

Kwang-Ching Liu

Gantt on Management: Guidelines for Today's Executives. Edited by Alex W. Rathe. New York, American Management Association and the American Association of Mechanical Engineers, 1961. Pp. 288. $9.00 pp. 479-480

Alfred Chandler

Economic Growth in the United States: Its History, Problems, and Prospects. By Sumner H. Slichter. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1961. Pp. 196. $5.00 pp. 480-482

Lance E. Davis

Volume 36, issue 3, 1962

The Decline and Fall of the Commercial Empire of A. T. Stewart pp. 255-286

Harry E. Resseguie

Interrelationship of Business Enterprise and Political Development pp. 287-324

Richard D. Robinson

Uranium Mining and the AEC: The Birth Pangs of a New Industry* pp. 325-333

Herbert H. Lang

Business and the Initiation of the Teapot Dome Investigation pp. 334-353

Robert A. Waller

Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise. Alfred D. ChandlerJr., Cambridge, The M.I.T. Press, 1962. Pp. 463. $10.00 pp. 373-375

William Miller

God Speed the Plow: The Coming of Steam Cultivation to Great Britain. Clark C. Spence. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1960. Pp. 183. $4.75 pp. 375-377

Peter d'A Jones

The Steel Industry, 1939–1959. Duncan Burn. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1961. Pp. xvi + 728. $14.50 (80s) pp. 377-379

W. P. Smith

Metering for America: 125 Years of the Gas Industry and American Meter Company. Arthur Lief. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1961. Pp. 154. $3.50 pp. 379-380

Arnold R. Daum

Oregon Argonauts: Merchant Adventurers on the Western Frontier. Arthur L. Throckmorton. Portland, Oregon Historical Society, 1961. Pp. 372. $10.00 pp. 380-382

Herbert D. Werner

Visions and Profits: Studies in the Business Career of T. S. Mort. By Alan Barnard. Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne University Press, on behalf of The Australian National University, 1961. Pp. xvii + 234. 45s pp. 382-384

Lachlan McGregor

International Bibliography of Economics, Vol. VIII.Prepared by the International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation in Cooperation with the International Economic Association.Paris, United Nations Educational, Sdentine and Cultural Organization, 1961. Pp. 560. $10 pp. 384-385

Theodore F. Marburg

Volume 36, issue 2, 1962

Hamilton MacFarland Barksdale and The Du Pont Contributions to Systematic Management* pp. 127-152

Ernest Dale and Charles Meloy

Commuter Services in the Boston Area, 1835–1860* pp. 153-170

Charles J. Kennedy

The Decline of Railroad Commutation* pp. 171-187

George W Hilton

Losses to the Public in The Insull Collapse: 1932-1946 pp. 188-204

Arthur R. Taylor

The Zurich Association for Economic History pp. 205-214

Paul J. Meier

American Capital and Canadian Resources. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1961. Pp. xii + 217. $5.00 pp. 231-233

J. H. Dales

Pattern in Organizational Analysis: A Critical Examination. By Sherman Krupp. Philadelphia and New York, Chilton Company — Book Division, 1961. Pp. xiv + 201. $5.00 pp. 233-235

Alfred Chandler

Transition to Multiple-Line Insurance Companies. By David Lynn Bickelhaupt. Published for The S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education, University of Pennsylvania, by Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illinois, 1961. Pp. xx + 226. $6.00 pp. 235-236

Harris Proschansky

La Banque Protestante en France de la Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes a la Revolution. By Herbert Lüthy. Vol. I. Dispersion et Regroupement (1685–1730). S.E.V.P.E.N.Paris, 1959. Pp. 454. Vol. II. De la Banque aux Finances (1730–1794) S.E.V.P.E.N. Paris, 1961. Pp. 861 pp. 236-239

Paul J. Meier

Une Famille De Marchands, les Ruiz, Contribution a l'Etude du Commerce entre la France et l'Espagne au Temps de Philippe II. By Henri Lapeyre. Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. 672. NF 24. - Lettres Marchandes d'Anvers. By Valentin Vázquez de Prada. S.E.V.P.E.N.Paris, 1960. Vol. I, pp. 358. NF 34.50. Vol II, pp. 388. NF 45. Vol. III, pp. 234. NF 45. Vol. IV, pp. 404. NF 45 pp. 239-243

Paul J. Meier

Le Credit Lyonnais de 1863 a 1882 — les Annees de Formation d'une Banque de Depots. By Jean Bouvier. S.E.V.P.E.N.Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sixième Section, 1961. Pp. 936 pp. 243-244

C. P. Kindleberger

The Wine Growers of France and the Government since 1875. By Charles K. Warner. New York, Columbia University Press, 1960. Pp. xvi + 303. $6.00 pp. 244-245

Charles E. Freedeman

Die Geschichte der Ilseder Hutte. By Wilhelm Treue. Privately printed, 1960. Pp. 728 pp. 245-246

Fritz Redlich

American History: Recent Interpretations. Book I: to 1877; Book II: since 1865. Edited by Abraham S. Eisenstadt. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1962. Pp. 530 + 561. $3.75 each vol pp. 246-247

Barry E. Supple

Workers and Utopia: A Study of Ideological Conflict in the American Labor Movement, 1865–1900. By Gerald N. Grob. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1961. Pp. 220. $6.50. - The Man in the Middle. By Nathan W. Shefferman with Dale Kramer. Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961. Pp. 292. $4.50. - Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930's. By Barbara Warne Newell. Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 288. $6.00 pp. 248-250

Paul A. Weinstein

The Fur Trade. By Paul Chrisler Phillips, with concluding chapters by J. W. Smurr. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. 2 vols. Pp. xxvi + 686, viii + 696. $16.50 pp. 250-253

Arlan K. Gilbert

East Texas Lumber Workers: An Economic and Social Picture, 1870–1950. By Ruth A. Allen. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1961. Pp. x + 239. $5.00 pp. 253-254

George W. Sieber

Volume 36, issue 1, 1962

Where Does Business History Go From Here? pp. 11-20

Arthur M. Johnson

Business History: Some Major Challenges pp. 21-43

Clarence C. Walton

Recruiting Business History Teachers pp. 44-60

Herman E. Krooss

Approaches To Business History pp. 61-86

Fritz Redlich

Communication Between the Academician and the Businessman pp. 87-97

Glen Perry

What Is Business History? pp. 98-106

Arthur H. Cole

Right-Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins. By John A. Garraty. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1960. Pp. 433. $7.50 pp. 111-113

Giulio Pontecorvo

Steelworkers in America, The Nonunion Era. By David Brody. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. viii + 303. $5.00 pp. 113-115

Paul Goodman

American Railroads. By John F. Stover. (The Chicago History of American Civilization.) Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1961. Pp. xiv + 302. $5.00 pp. 115-116

Irene D. Neu

Enterprise and Anthracite: Economics and Democracy in Schuylkill County, 1820–1875. By Clifton K. YearleyJr., Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. Pp. 254. $5.00 pp. 116-118

Stephen M. Salsbury

Das Wesen von Unternehmung und Unternehmer. By Klaus F. Veil. Baden-Baden/Frankfurt am Main, August Lutzeyer, 1956. Pp. 192. - Preistheorie. By Wilhelm Krelle. Zürich, A. G. Tübingen, 1961. Pp. xxiv + 732 pp. 118-121

Paul J. Meier

Gênes et les Foires de Change (De Lyon à Besançon). By Domenico Gioffrè. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1960. Pp. 293 pp. 121-123

Paul J. Meier

The Porters of London. By Walter M. Stern. London, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1960. Pp. xvi + 346. $5.25 pp. 123-124

William F. Kahl

Geschichte der Deutschen Sparkassen. By Adolf Trende. Stuttgart, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1957. Pp. xii + 610 pp. 124-125

Klaus H. Wolff