Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 35, issue 4, 1961

Systematic Management: The Search for Order and Integration* pp. 461-476

Joseph A. Litterer

The Little Businessman: A Study of Business Proprietors in Poughkeepsie, New York pp. 477-531

Mabel Newcomer

The Private Companies and A Public-Power Paradox pp. 532-549

W. Stewart Nelson

J. B. Moussier and the Property Banks of Louisiana* pp. 550-557

Irene D. Neu

China and the Erie Canal pp. 558-566

Craig R. Hanyan

Seven Progressives–A Review Article pp. 581-592

John Braeman

Industry Comes of age: Business, Labor, and Public Policy, 1860–1897. By Edward C. Kirkland. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961. Pp. 445 + xiv. $7.50 pp. 593-595

Wayne G. Broehl

Bearsted: A Biography of Marcus Samuel, First Viscount Bearsted and Founder of “Shell” Transport and Trading Company. By Robert Henriques. New York, The Viking Press, 1960. Pp. xi + 676. $7.50 pp. 595-596

William Miller

The Maxwell Land Grant. By Jim Berry Pearson. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. Pp. xiv + 305. $5.00 pp. 596-597

William J. Parish

Britain's Imperial Air Routes, 1918 to 1939: The Story of Britain's Overseas Airlines. By Robin Higham. Hamden, Connecticut, The Shoe String Press, 1961. Pp. 407. $10.00 pp. 597-598

John B. Rae

The Hartford of Hartford: An Insurance Company's Part in a Century and a Half of American History. By Hawthorne Daniel. New York, Random House, 1960. Pp. 312. $7.50 pp. 598-599

Harris Proschansky

Gênes au XVè Siecle. Activite Economique et Problemes Sociaux. By Jacques Heers. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1961. Pp. 750. NF 50 pp. 599-601

Paul J. Meier

Le Conseil General Des Manufactures. By Bertrand Gille. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1961. Pp. 201. NF 19.50 pp. 602-603

Paul J. Meier

Contributions of Four Accounting Pioneers: Kohler, Littleton, May, Paton. by James Don Edwards and Ronald F. Salmonson. East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1961. Pp. 238. $6.50. - Essays On Accountancy. By A. C. Littleton. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 636. $10.00. - “Retrospect and Prospect.” By George O. May. The Journal of Accountancy (July, 1961), pp. 31–36 pp. 603-605

Mary E. Murphy

Volume 35, issue 3, 1961

The Judicial System and the Law of Life Insurance, 1888-1910* pp. 317-335

Morton Keller

Multiple-Level Organization of a Great Railroad pp. 336-343

Leland H. Jenks

Portrait of a Robber Baron: Charles T. Yerkes pp. 344-371

Sidney I. Roberts

Market Entry and Economic Adaptation: Spiegel's First Decade in Mail Order pp. 372-401

Orange A. Smalley

An Origin of The New South: The South Carolina Homespun Company, 1808-1815* pp. 402-414

Richard W. Griffin

Five Centuries of Printing in London pp. 445-456

William Kahl

Fortune's Merry Wheel: the Lottery in America. By John Samuel Ezell. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. viii + 331. $6.75 pp. 457-458

Harvey Wish

The Sun Insurance Office: 1710-1960. By P. G. M. Dickson. London, Oxford University Press, 1960. Pp. 324. $7.20 pp. 458-459

Harris Proschansky

Volume 35, issue 2, 1961

Early History of A Railway Organization pp. 153-162

Leland H. Jenks

Historical Development of the Organization of the Pennsylvania Railroad* pp. 163-179

Anonymous

Integration Into Crude Oil Transportation in the 1930's – A Case Study: The Standard Oil Co. (Ohio)* pp. 180-210

Catherine C. Ellsworth

Alexander Hamilton Church and the Development of Modern Management* pp. 211-225

Joseph A. Litterer

Thomas Cook and the American Blanket Trade in the Nineteenth Century pp. 226-246

Frederick J. Glover

The Business Community and the Origins of the 1875 Resumption Act* pp. 247-262

Irwin Unger

Studies in Enterprise, 1960 A Selected Bibliography pp. 263-286

Lorna M. Daniells

Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800–1890. By Carter Goodrich. New York, Columbia University Press, 1960. Pp. x + 382. $7.50 pp. 291-292

Hugh G. J. Aitken

History of Public Accounting in the United States. By James Don Edwards; Foreword by John L. Carey. MSU Business Studies. East Lansing, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Michigan State University, 1960. Pp. xiv + 368. $6.50 pp. 292-294

Roy J. Sampson

Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887–1895. By Arnold M. Paul. Published for the American Historical Association, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 257. $4.75 pp. 294-295

Richard S. Kirkendall

Samuel Slater: Father of American Manufactures. By E. H. Cameron. American Saga Series, Freeport, Me., The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1960. Pp. xvi + 206. $4.00 pp. 295-296

Ernest M. Lander

Mill on the Dan: A History of Dan River Mills, 1882–1950. By Robert Sidney Smith. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1960. Pp. 570. $12.50 pp. 296-298

Louis Galambos

Marshall's of Leeds, Flax-Spinners 1788–1886. By W. G. Rimmer. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1960. Pp. 342. $7.50 pp. 298-299

Jean Lindsay

Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent. By William Greenleaf. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1961. Pp. vii + 302. $5.95 pp. 299-301

Barbara Shapiro

The Union Pacific Railroad: A Casebook of Premature Enterprise. By Robert W. Fogel. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1960. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXVIII, Number 2.) Pp. 128. $3.50. - Climax: an Unusual Steam Locomotive. By Thomas T. TaberIII, and Walter Casler. New Jersey, Railroadians of America, Inc., 1960. Pp. 97. $6.00 pp. 301-303

Robert C. Toole

Lockwood Greene, the History of an Engineering Business, 1832–1958. By Samuel B. Lincoln. Brattleboro, Vermont, The Stephen Greene Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 858 pp. 303-306

Jack Blicksilver

Guinness's Brewery in the Irish Economy, 1759–1876. By Patrick Lynch and John Vaizey. Cambridge [England]University Press, 1960. Pp. viii + 278. $7.00 pp. 306-308

Ralph W. Andreano

The London & North Western Railway. By O. S. Nock. London, Ian Allan, Ltd., 1960. Pp. 228. $8.00 pp. 309-310

Robert E. Carlson

Free Grass to Fences. By Robert H. Fletcher. New York, University Publishers, Inc., 1960. Pp. 233. $12.00 pp. 310-312

Gene M. Gressley

The Richest American, J. Paul Getty. By Ralph Hewins. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960. Pp. 404. $5.00 pp. 312-316

Elizabeth Bricker Currier

Volume 35, issue 1, 1961

Recent Developments in American Business Administration and their Conceptualization pp. 1-27

Alfred Chandler and Fritz Redlich

Oil for the West of England, 1889–1896: A Study in Competition pp. 28-42

W. J. Reader

A. A. Berle, Jr. Student of the Corporation 1917–1932* pp. 43-58

Richard S. Kirkendall

The First Niagara Falls Power Project pp. 59-74

Harold I. Sharlin

A Note on Continuity of Enterprise pp. 75-88

Arthur H. Cole

Problems of French Investment in Italian Railways: A Document of 1868 pp. 89-104

Rondo E. Cameron

Commercial Crisis and Change in England, 1600–1642. By B. E. Supple. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1959. Pp. xii + 296. $7.50 pp. 116-120

Herbert Heaton

Massachusetts Shipping, 1697–1714: A Statistical Study. By Bernard Bailyn and Lotte Bailyn. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959. Pp. xi + 148. $5.00 pp. 120-121

Lawrence H. Leder

Studies in the Industrial Revolution: Essays Presented to T. S. Ashton. Edited by L. S. Pressnell. London, The Athlone Press of the University of London, 1960. Pp. 350. 42s pp. 122-126

John L. Enos

Erastus Corning: Merchant and Financier: 1794–1872. By Irene D. Neu. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 212. $4.00 pp. 126-127

James F. Doster

A History of the Midland Counties Lace Manufacturers' Association, 1915–1958. By D. E. Varley. Long Eaton, Published by Lace Productions (1948), Limited, on behalf of the British Leavers Lace Manufacturers' Association, 1959. Pp. 212. 25s pp. 127-129

James H. Soltow

Charles H. Dow and the Dow Theory. By George W. BishopJr., New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1960. Pp. ix + 359. $6.00 pp. 129-131

Giulio Pontecorvo

The Movement for International Copyright in Nineteenth-Century America. By Aubert J. Clark, O.F.M. Conv., Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 1960. Pp. 215 pp. 131-133

August C. Bolino

The Great Organizers. By Ernest Dale. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1960. $5.95 pp. 133-135

Milton J. Nadworny

The Range Cattle Industry: Ranching on the Great Plains From 1865 to 1925. By Edward Everett Dale. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. [New edition.] Pp. xv + 207. $4.00 pp. 135-135

Richard Graham

Seeds that Grew: A History of the Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange. By Joseph G. Knapp. Hinsdale, New York, 1960. Pp. 535. $6.50 pp. 136-137

Theodore Saloutos

The Calumet Region: Indiana's Last Frontier. By Powell A. Moore. Indiana Historical Collections. Vol. XXXIX. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Bureau, 1959. Pp. xiv + 654. $6.00 pp. 137-139

Charles N. Glaab

S. Z. Mitchell and the Electrical Industry. By Sidney Alexander Mitchell. New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. Pp. xiii + 178. $5.00 pp. 139-140

Thomas P. Hughes

The Natural Gas Industry: Monopoly and Competition in Field Markets. By Edward J. Neuner. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Pp. 302. $5.75 pp. 140-142

Robert B. Eckles

The American Civil Engineer: Origins and Conflicts. By Daniel H. Calhoua. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 295. $5.50 pp. 142-145

Melford E. Monsees

Line Haul: The Story of Pacific Intermountain Express. By Samuel W. Taylor. San Francisco, Filmer Publishing Company, 1959. Pp. 310. $5.00 pp. 145-146

Merrill J. Roberts

Three French Histories - Les Forges Francaises en 1772. By Bertrand Gille. S.E.V.P.E.N., Paris, 1960. Pp. 208 pp. 146-147

Paul J. Meier

La Banque et le Credit en France de 1815 a 1848. By Bertrand Gille. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1959. Pp. 380 pp. 147-149

Paul J. Meier

Cargaisons indiennes Solier et Cie, 1781–1793. By Louis Dermigny. S.E.V.P.E.N., Paris, 1959/1960. Volume I, Pp. 318; Volume II, Pp. 456 pp. 149-151

Paul J. Meier