Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 34, issue 4, 1960

The American Business Community and Cleveland's Venezuelan Message pp. 393-402

Walter LaFeber

Industrial Relations Policies Of American Management 1900–1933 pp. 403-420

Norman J. Wood

The Investment Boom In British-Texan Cattle Companies 1880–1885 pp. 421-445

Richard Graham

Early Bookkeeping and its Development into Accounting pp. 446-458

James Don Edwards

American Accounting Education, Textbooks and Public Practice Prior to 1900 pp. 459-466

Roy J. Sampson

The Kress Library of Business and Economics pp. 478-494

Dorothea D. Reeves

The Corporation in Modern Society. Edited with an Introduction by Edward S. Mason; Foreword by A. A. Berle, Jr. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959. Pp. xv + 335. Hard covers, $6.75; Paperback, $3.50 pp. 499-501

K. E. Boulding

Administrative Vitality: the Conflict with Bureaucracy. By Marshall E. Dimock. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. xiii + 298. $5.00 pp. 501-503

Alfred Chandler

British Industrialists: Steel and Hosiery, 1850–1950. By Charlotte Erickson. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Economic and Social Studies, No. 18. Cambridge, England, The University Press, 1959. Pp. xxxi + 276. $7.50 pp. 503-504

Mable Newcomer

Iron in the Making: Dowlais Iron Company Letters, 1782–1860. Madeleine Elsas, ed., Glamorgan, County Records Committee of the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions & County Council and Guest Keen Iron & Steel Company Limited, 1960. Pp. xix + 247. 10/6 or $2.00 pp. 504-506

E. N. Hartley

I Have Known Many Worlds. By Roger Burlingame. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Pp. 283. $4.50 pp. 506-507

Evelyn H. Knowlton

The Massachusetts Land Bankers of 1740. By George Athan Billias. University of Maine Studies, Second Series, No. 74. Orono, Maine, The University Press, 1959. Pp. x + 59. $1.00 pp. 507-507

Neil A. McNall

The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. By Edith Tilton Penrose. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1959. Pp. 272. $6.00 pp. 508-509

William Miller

Volume 34, issue 3, 1960

An Early Industrial Community – The Evans' Cotton Mill at Darley Abbey Derbyshire, 1783–1810 pp. 277-301

Jean Lindsay

ABC and SRDS: The Evolution of Two Specialized Advertising Services pp. 302-326

Kenneth H. Myers

Sixteenth-Century Writings on Bookkeeping: Acquired by the Kress Library of Business and Economics pp. 327-334

Dorothea D. Reeves

The NAM and the Congressional Investigations of 1913: A Case Study in the Suppression of Evidence pp. 335-344

A. K. Steigerwalt

Business Manuscripts at Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration pp. 345-355

Robert W. Lovett

The American Manufacturing Frontier, 1870-1940 pp. 356-372

Robert F. Severson

Precision Power: the First Half Century of Bodine Electric Company. By Howard F. Bennett. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959. Pp. xiv + 336. $6.00 pp. 373-376

Harold C. Passer

The Electric Interurban Railways in America. By George W. Hilton and John F. Due. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1960. Pp. ix + 463. $9.50 pp. 376-377

William C. Stewart

The Incredible Krupps. By Norbert Muhlen. New York, Henry Holt, 1959. Pp. 308. $5.00 pp. 378-378

Klaus H. Wolff

Chain Stores In America, 1859-1959. By Godfrey M. Lebhar. New York, Chain Store Publishing Corporation, 1959. Pp. 401. $6.95 pp. 378-379

George Sternlieb

Kitty Hawk To Sputnik To Polaris. By Eugene E. Wilson. Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Gazette, 1960. Pp. xviii + 231. $5.00 pp. 379-380

John B. Rae

Conservatives in Power: A Study in Frustration. By Edwin L. DaleJr., New York, Doubleday & Company, 1960. Pp. 214. $3.95 pp. 380-381

William Miller

Cotton Manufacturing in the Southeast: An Historical Analysis. By Jack Blicksilver. Atlanta, Georgia: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, School of Business Administration, Georgia State College of Business Administration. Bulletin Number 5, 1959. Pp.viii + 176 pp. 381-384

Richard W. Griffin

Emanuel L. Philipp, Wisconsin Stalwart. By Robert S. Maxwell. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1959. Pp. xvi + 222. $6.50 pp. 384-386

Herbert F. Margulies

The A.F. of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger. By Philip Taft. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. 499. $7.50 pp. 386-387

Bernard Mandel

The Development of Banking in the District of Columbia. By David Cole. New York, William-Frederick Press, 1959. Pp. xx + 629. $10.00 pp. 387-387

Lester V. Chandler

A Liverpool Merchant House: Being the History of Alfred Booth and Company, 1863-1958. By A. H. John. London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1959. Pp. 197. 21s pp. 388-389

Stuart Bruchey

Fifty Years of Marketing in Retrospect. By Paul D. Converse. Austin, Texas, Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, 1959. Pp. 104. $1.50 pp. 389-390

Kenneth H. Myers

Nicholas Biddle: Nationalist and Public Banker. By Thomas Payne Govan. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1959. Pp. 428. $7.50 pp. 390-391

Lance E. Davis

Volume 34, issue 2, 1960

British Railroads and Engineers and the Beginnings of American Railroad Development pp. 137-149

Robert E. Carlson

Anglo-American Merchant Bankers and the Railroads of the Old Northwest, 1848-1860 pp. 150-169

Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy

Behind The Lines: The La Crosse Packet Company during the Civil War pp. 170-193

Robert C. Toole

British Attitudes Toward Investment in North American Railroads pp. 194-216

A. W. Currie

History of Humble Oil & Refining Company: A Study in Industrial Growth. By Henrietta M. Larson and Kenneth Wiggins Porter. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. xxiv + 769. $7.50 pp. 249-253

J. S. Spratt

Oil on Stream! A History of Interstate Oil Pipe Line Company, 1909–1959. By John L. Loos. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1959. Pp. xvi + 411. $6.00 pp. 253-255

George S. Wolbert

Lumberman from Flint: The Michigan Career of Henry H. Crapo, 1855–1869. By Martin Deming Lewis. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1958. Pp. xi + 289. Illustrations. $5.00 pp. 255-256

James W. Silver

Merger Movements in American Industry, 1895–1956. By Ralph L. Nelson. National Bureau of Economic Research, Number 66, General Series, Princeton, 1959. Pp. xxi + 177. $5.00 pp. 256-258

Arthur M. Johnson

Law and Locomotives, the Impact of the Railroad on Wisconsin Law in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert S. Hunt. Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958. Pp. xiv + 292. $6.50 pp. 258-260

Arthur M. Johnson

The British Tinplate Industry: A History. By Walter E. Minchinton. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1957. Pp. xiv + 286. $5.60 pp. 260-261

Barry E. Supple

Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley, 1783–1860. By Paul C. Henlein. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1959. Pp. vii + 198. $6.50 pp. 261-263

Gene M. Gressley

Gold vs. Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley. By Robert L. Kelley. Glendale, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959. Pp. 327. $9.50 pp. 263-264

Clark C. Spence

Early History of the Long Island Railroad 1834–1900. By Mildred H. Smith. Uniondale, Long Island, Salisbury Printers, 1959. Pp. 63. $3.00 pp. 264-265

Charles J. Kennedy

The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. By R. Carlyle Buley. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1959. Pp. xviii + 262. $5.00 pp. 266-267

Milton J. Nadworny

Bluegrass Craftsman: Being the Reminiscences of Ebenezer Hiram Stedman, Papermaker, 1808–1885. Edited by Frances L. S. Dugan and Jacqueline P. Bull. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1959. Pp. vii + 226. $5.00 pp. 266-266

Steven J. Shaw

Patterns from the Sod: Land Use and Tenure in the Grand Prairie, 1850–1900. By Margaret Beattie Bogue. Springfield, Illinois, Illinois State Historical Library, 1959. Pp. 327. $2.50 pp. 268-270

Glenn H. Miller

The Ohio Company: its Inner History. By Alfred P. James. Pittsburgh, The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959. Pp. 375. $6.00 pp. 270-271

Lawrence H. Leder

Insurance in Venice from the Origins to the End of the Serenissima. By Giuseppe Stefani, translated from the Italian by Arturo Dawson Amuroso. Trieste, privately printed, 1958. Two volumes (paged continuously). Pp. viii + 639 pp. 271-273

Raymond de Roover

Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal, Scientific Management in Action, 1908–1915. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. viii + 269. $3.50 pp. 273-276

George S. Gibb

Volume 34, issue 1, 1960

The Growth of the Firm—A Case Study: The Hercules Powder Company pp. 1-23

Edith T. Penrose

Albert Fink and the Pooling System pp. 24-49

D. T. Gilchrist

Water Rights and Cabinet Shuffles: How Claus Spreckels' Hawaiian Career Began pp. 50-63

Jacob Adler

A Michigan Lumbering Family pp. 64-76

Ruth B. Bordin

New England Journalist: Highlights in the Newspaper Career of Charles H. Dow pp. 77-93

George W. Bishop

Beard, McDonald, and Economic Determinism in American Historiography pp. 113-121

Peter J. Coleman

Business Enterprise in its Social Setting. By Arthur H. Cole. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959. Pp. xiii + 286. $5.50 pp. 121-122

W. T. Easterbrook

The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859–1899. By Harold F. Williamson and Arnold R. Daum. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1959. Pp. xvi + 833. $7.50 pp. 122-124

Gerald T. White

Seaports South of Sahara: The Achievements of an American Steamship Service. By Robert Greenhalgh Albion. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959. Pp. xii + 316. $6.00 pp. 124-126

John G. B. Hutchins

Precision Valley: The Machine Tool Companies of Springfield, Vermont. By Wayne G. BroehlJr., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1959. Pp. xii + 274. $5.95 pp. 126-127

Albert K. Steigerwalt

Clarence King, a Biography. By Thurman Wilkins. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1958. Pp. ix + 441. $7.50 pp. 127-129

William Miller

Deloitte & Co., 1845–1956. By James Kilpatrick and Sir Russell Kettle. Great Britain, Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. 171 pp. 129-130

William C. Stewart

Studies in Early Petroleum History. By R. J. Forbes. Leiden, Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1958. Pp. ix + 199. Approx. $7.00. - More Studies in Early Petroleum History. By R. J. Forbes, Leiden, Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1959. Pp. 199. Approx. $7.50 pp. 130-131

Kendall Beaton

English Historical Documents. Volume IX, 1783–1832. Edited by Arthur Aspinwall and E. Anthony Smith. New York, Oxford University Press, 1959. Pp. xxx + 992. $15.20 pp. 131-132

Barry E. Supple

Story of the Gear Cutting Machine. By Robert S. Woodbury. Cambridge, The Technology Press, 1959. Pp. 135. $3.00 pp. 132-133

Ralph E. Flanders

Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt. By David S. Landes. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi + 354. $6.00 pp. 133-135

Max E. Fletcher