Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 33, issue 4, 1959

Borden at the Century Mark: Case Study of a Centennial Observance pp. 469-494

Joe B. Frantz

Legal Progressivism, the Courts, and the Crisis of the 1890's* pp. 495-509

Arnold M. Paul

The Anatomy of Prejudice: Origins of the Robber Baron Legend pp. 510-523

John Tipple

John Greig: Land Agent and Speculator pp. 524-534

Neil A. McNall

Birth of an Employers' Association pp. 535-545

Richard W. Gable

The Bank that Banks Built: The Story of Savings Bank Trust Company 1933–1958. By Adolph A. BerleJr., New York, Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. 125. $2.75 pp. 581-582

Lance E. Davis

Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. By Carl N. Degler. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. 484. $6.00 pp. 582-583

Vincent P. Carosso

The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine. By Helen Rocca Goss. Los Angeles, Historical Society of Southern California, 1958. Pp. xvi + 150. $5.00 pp. 583-585

Clark C. Spence

Endless Frontiers: The Story of Mcgraw-Hill. By Roger Burlingame. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Pp. 506. $7.50 pp. 585-586

Allan W. Ferrin

Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal. By W. A. Swanberg. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. Pp. 310. $4.50 pp. 586-587

Julius Grodinsky

The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758–1830: A Study of the Early Factory System. By R. S. Fitton and A. P. Wadsworth, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1959. Pp. xi + 324. 35s pp. 587-589

Keiichiro Nakagawa

The Early History of the Houston Oil Company of Texas, 1901–1908. By John O. King. Houston, Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association Publications, Vol. III, No. 1, April, 1959. Pp. 100. $3.00 pp. 589-590

Gene M. Gressley

The Brewing Industry in England, 1700–1830. By Peter Mathias. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1959. Pp. 623. $15.00 pp. 591-596

Barry E. Supple

Volume 33, issue 3, 1959

The Tempo of Mercantile Life in Colonial America pp. 277-299

Arthur H. Cole

A Railroad for Turkey: the Chester Project, 1908–1913 pp. 300-329

John A. DeNovo

The Premises Of Business Revisionism pp. 330-344

Gabriel Kolko

The Development of Personnel Management in the United States pp. 345-364

Henry Eilbirt

Great Independent: The Lincoln Telephone Company, 1903–1908 pp. 365-382

William D. Torrence

Antitrust Policies: American Experience in Twenty Industries. By Simon N. Whitney. New York, The Twentieth Century Fund, 1958. 2 vols. $10.00 pp. 449-452

Giulio Pontecorvo

Company and Community: Case Studies in Industry-city Relationships. By Wayne Hodges. New York, Harper & Bros., 1958. Pp. x + 360. $4.50 pp. 452-453

James Soltow

American Automobile Manufacturers: The First Forty Years. By John B. Rae. Philadelphia and New York, Chilton Company, Book Division, 1959. Pp. xii + 223. $6.00 pp. 454-455

Thomas C. Cochran

Geschicte Des Geigy-Unternehmens Von 1758 Bis 1939. By Alfred Buergin. Basel, 1958. 2 vols pp. 455-457

Paul J. Meier

Hydroelectricity and Industrial Development: Quebec, 1898–1940. By John H. Dales. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xii + 269. $5.00 pp. 457-459

Vincent Jolivet

Development of Comprehensive Insurance for the Household. By John Eugene Pierce. Homewood, Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1958. $5.00 pp. 460-461

Harris Proschansky

Gulbenkian: An Interpretation of “The Richest Man in the World.” By John Lodwick, in collaboration with D. H. Young. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co., 1958. Pp. vii + 289. $4.00 pp. 461-462

George S. Gibb

Basic History of American Business. By Thomas C. Cochran. Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1959. Pp. 192. $1.25 pp. 463-463

William Miller

Rails, Mines, And Progress: Seven American Promoters In Mexico, 1867–1911. By David M. Pletcher. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1958 pp. 463-465

Lance E. Davis

The Puerto Rican Businessman: A Study In Cultural Change. By Thomas C. Cochran. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Pp. 198. $5.00 pp. 465-467

Sanford A. Mosk

Altgeld's America, 1892–1905, The Lincoln Ideal Versus Changing Realities. By Ray Ginger. New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1958. Pp. 376. $4.95 pp. 467-468

Alfred Chandler

Volume 33, issue 2, 1959

Teschemacher and deBillier Cattle Company: A Study of Eastern Capital on the Frontier pp. 121-137

Gene M. Gressley

Sons of the Wild Jackass and the Stock Market pp. 138-155

Cedric B. Cowing

Business Patterns in the Growth of a Midwestern City: The Kansas City Business Community Before the Civil War pp. 156-174

Charles N. Glaab

The Jost Amman Print: Aigentliche Abbildung dess Gantzen Gewerbs der Kauffmanschaft pp. 175-177

Dorothea D. Reeves

Small City Industrialists in the Age of Organization: Case Study of the Manufacturers' Association of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1908–1958 pp. 178-189

James H. Soltow

The Montana Company, Limited: Case Study of an Anglo-American Mining Investment pp. 190-203

Clark C. Spence

Two Giants of International Trade: The Unilever and Royal Dutch Histories—A Review Article pp. 244-255

Henrietta M. Larson and George S. Gibb

Business History. Edited by F. E. Hyde. Published by the Liverpool University Press. Vol. I, No. 1, December, 1958. Pp. 62. This journal is to be published bi-annually. Subscription 30s; $5.00 in the United States and Canada pp. 256-257

Muriel E. Hidy

The Coming of the New Deal. By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. Pp. xii + 669. $6.75 pp. 257-258

John B. Rae

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By Clark C. Spence. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1958. Pp. ix + 288. $4.50 pp. 258-260

Arthur M. Johnson

Success and Failure in Small Manufacturing: a Study of 20 Small Manufacturing Concerns. By A. M. Woodruff, and T. G. Alexander. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958. Pp. 124. $3.50 pp. 260-261

James H. Soltow

Benjamin Strong: Central Banker. By Lester V. Chandler. Washington, D. C., The Brookings Institution, 1958. Pp. 495. $6.00 pp. 261-265

Lance E. Davis

The State and the Industrial Revolution in Prussia, 1740–1870. By William O. Henderson. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1938. Pp. xxiii + 232. 37s. 6d pp. 265-266

Fritz Redlich

Economic Changes in the Baking Industry. By Charles C. Slater. Chicago, American Bakers Association, 1958. Pp. 73 pp. 266-266

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

History of the Georgia Power Company: 1855 to 1956. By Wade H. Wright. Atlanta, Georgia, The Company, 1957. Pp. 386 pp. 267-268

Harris Proschansky

Black Dyke Mills: a History. By Eric M. Sigsworth. Liverpool, The Liverpool University Press, 1958. Pp. xvii + 385. 35s. 0d pp. 268-270

Barry E. Supple

Men and Machines: a History of D. Napier & Son, Engineers, Ltd., 1808–1958. By Charles Wilson and William Reader. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1958. Pp. 187. 35s pp. 271-273

James H. Soltow

The Response to Industrialism, 1885–1914. By Samuel P. Hays. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1957. Pp. ix + 211. $3.50 pp. 273-274

George Sternlieb

The Oil Century: From the Drake Well to the Conservation Era. By J.Stanley Clark. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. Pp. xv + 280. $3.95 pp. 274-276

Gerald T. White

Volume 33, issue 1, 1959

The Beginnings of “Big Business” in American Industry* pp. 1-31

Alfred Chandler

Boom Stages In American Expansion pp. 32-42

Charles M. Gates

The Perfect Melodeon: The Origins of the Estey Organ Company, 1846–1866* pp. 43-59

Milton J. Nadworny

A Tidewater Merchant In New Hampshire pp. 60-72

Robert W. Lovett

Local Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia pp. 73-86

Richard N. Farmer

From Business To Government—A Review Article pp. 87-105

Barry E. Supple

The Rise of the British Rubber Industry During the Nineteenth Century. By William Woodruff. Liverpool, England, Liverpool University Press, 1958. Pp. 229. 35s pp. 106-108

Nancy Norton

Facile Princeps: The Story of the Beginning of Life Insurance in America. By Alexander Mackie. Philadelphia, 1956. Pp.292 pp. 108-109

Harris Proschansky

A Century of Auckland Commerce: 1856–1956; A History of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. By A. C. Franklin, Auckland, New Zealand, The Chamber, 1956 pp. 110-111

Harris Proschansky

The Sources of Invention. By John Jewkes, David Sawers, and Richard Stillerman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. Pp. 428. $6.75 pp. 111-114

Alister Sutherland

Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A Study in the History of the Booktrade. By David Kaser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. Pp. 182. $4.00 pp. 114-115

Elva Tooker

Railroads In Alabama Politics, 1875–1914. By James F. Doster. University of Alabama, University, Alabama, 1957. Pp. 254. $5.00 pp. 115-117

Bennett H. Wall

Commitment to Freedom, the Story of the Christian Science Monitor. By Erwin D. Canham, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. Pp. xxiv + 454. $4.85 pp. 117-119

Elizabeth Bricker Currier