Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 32, issue 4, 1958

The Ford Motor Company and the N.R.A pp. 353-385

Sidney Fine

From Benevolence to Business: The Story of Two Savings Banks* pp. 386-406

Lance Edwin Davis and Peter Lester Payne

Mormon Philosophy and Practical Railroad Building pp. 407-422

August C. Bolino

Industrial Experiments in the Wilderness: A Sidelight in the Business History of the Hudson's Bay Company* pp. 423-433

Alvin C. Gluek

Entrepreneurial Studies: Perspectives and Directions, 1948–1958 pp. 434-443

John E. Sawyer

L. P. Alford and the Evolution of Modern Industrial Management. By William J. Jaffe. New York, New York University Press, 1957. Pp. xix + 366. $5.00 pp. 460-462

Milton J. Nadworny

The Story of Advertising. By James Playsted Wood. New York, The Ronald Press, 1958. Pp. viii + 512. $6.50 pp. 462-464

Robert A. Lynn

The North West Company. By Mrs.Marjorie Elliott Campbell. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1957. Pp. 309. $6.00 pp. 464-466

Alvin C. Gluek

Then Came The Railroads. By Ira G. Clark. Norman, Oklahoma, The University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. Pp. 336. $5.75 pp. 466-467

Ralph N. Traxler

Planters and Businessmen: The Guignard Family of South Carolina, 1795–1930. Edited by Arney R. Childs. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1957. Pp. xii + 148. $5.00 pp. 468-469

Albert V. House

The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime: 1500–1791. By David D. Pottinger. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. 358. $7.50 pp. 469-471

Harris Proschansky

Adventures in Small Business: 119 Success Stories of Ideas, Products and Inventions that Have Been Developed into Profit-Making Businesses. By the Editors of Fortune. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. [1957[. Pp. xi + 273. $3.75 pp. 471-473

Theodore F. Marburg

Volume 32, issue 3, 1958

Samuel Insull and the Movement for State Utility Regulatory Commissions* pp. 241-254

Forrest McDonald

The Fabulous Billy Durant* pp. 255-271

John B. Rae

Success and Failure Factors: American Merchants in Foreign Trade in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries* pp. 272-292

Stuart Bruchey

The Hawkes Papers: A Case Study of a Kansas Mortgage Brokerage Business, 1871–1888 pp. 293-310

Glenn H. Miller

Standard Oil in Indonesia, 1898–1928 pp. 311-337

Peter Mellish Reed

Northwestern Mutual Life: A Century of Trusteeship. By Harold F. Williamson and Orange A. Smalley. Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University Press, 1957. Pp. 368. $7.50 pp. 338-340

Harris Proschansky

Organized Business in France. By Henry W. Ehrmann. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1957. Pp. vii + 514. $7.50 pp. 340-343

Judah Adelson

Histoire des Institutions D'Assurance en France. By P. J. Richard. Paris, Editions de L'Argus, 1956. Pp. 333 pp. 343-345

Harris Proschansky

The American Stockholder. By J. A. Livingston. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1958. Pp. 290. $4.95 pp. 345-347

William Miller

Kilowatts at Work, A History of The Detroit Edison Company. By Raymond C. Miller. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi + 467. $7.50. - Let There Be Light, The Electric Utility Industry in Wisconsin, 1881–1955. By Forrest McDonald. Madison, The American History Research Center, 1957. Pp. viii + 404. $5.95 pp. 347-350

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

Swope of G.E.: The story of Gerard Swope and General Electric in American Business. By David Loth. New York, Simon & Shuster, 1958. Pp. ix + 309. $5.00 pp. 350-352

George S. Gibb

Volume 32, issue 2, 1958

Harold P. Brown and the Executioner's Current: an Incident in the AC-DC Controversy* pp. 143-165

Thomas P. Hughes

Investment Banking and Security Speculation in the Late 1920's* pp. 166-191

Giulio Pontecorvo

The Earliest Fire Insurance Company in Berlin and Brandenburg, 1705–1711 pp. 192-203

Reinhold A. Dorwart

Stock Ownership in the Early New England Textile Industry* pp. 204-222

Lance Edwin Davis

Roads, Rails, and Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation. By Forest G. Hill. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Pp. vii + 248. $4.00 pp. 223-225

Melford E. Monsees

Lloyd's of London: A Study in Individualism. By D. E. W. Gibb. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1957. Pp. ix + 387. $5.00 pp. 225-229

Harris Proschansky

The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company: A Case Study of the Wisconsin Lumbering Frontier. By A. R. Reynolds. New York, New York University Press, 1957. Pp. 177. $5.00 pp. 229-231

Elwood R. Maunder

And the Price is Right. By Margaret Case Harriman. Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Co., 1958. Pp. 318. $4.00 pp. 232-233

Ralph N. Traxler

Since 1845: A History of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. By Mildred F. Stone. Rutgers University Press, The Company, 1957. Pp. 236. $4.50 pp. 234-235

Harris Proschansky

Mr. Five Per Cent. By Ralph Hewins. New York, Rinehart & Co., 1958. Pp. x + 261. $4.00 pp. 236-237

George S. Gibb

Jay Gould: His Business Career, 1867–1892. By Julius Grodinsky. Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. Pp. 610. $10.00 pp. 237-239

Howard F. Bennett

Volume 32, issue 1, 1958

The Robber Baron Concept In American History pp. 1-13

Hal Bridges

The Story of the Alberti Company of Florence, 1302–1348, as Revealed in Its Account Books pp. 14-59

Raymond de Roover

The Augusta (Georgia) Manufacturing Company in Peace, War, and Reconstruction, 1847–1877 pp. 60-73

Richard W. Griffin

Public Accounting in the United States from 1913 to 1928 pp. 74-101

James Don Edwards

The Small City Industrialist, 1900–1950: A Case Study of Norristown, Pennsylvania* pp. 102-115

James H. Soltow

A Review Article pp. 116-121

Kenneth E. Boulding and John Kenneth Galbraith

The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933 (Volume 1 of The Age of Roosevelt). By Arthur M. SchlesingerJr., Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1957. Pp. xiv + 557. $6.00 pp. 122-125

John B. Rae

South Pacific Enterprise: The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited. A. G. Lowndes, ed. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, Ltd., 1956. Pp. xvii + 500. 42 s pp. 125-127

Benjamin Haggott Beckhart

Ironworks on the Saugus: The Lynn and Braintree Ventures of the Company of Undertakers of the Ironworks in New England. By E. N. Hartley. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Pp. xvi + 328. $4.50 pp. 127-129

James H. Soltow

Music for the Millions: The Kimball Piano and Organ Story. By Van Allen Bradley. New York, Henry Regnery Company, 1957. Pp. 334. $4.00 pp. 129-131

Milton J. Nadworny

History of Accident Insurance in Great Britain. By W. A. Dinsdale. London, Stone and Cox, Ltd., 1955. Pp. 362. 42 s pp. 131-133

Harris Proschansky

A History of Industrial Life Assurance. By Dermot Morrah. London, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1955. Pp. 243. 15 s pp. 133-136

Harris Proschansky

Albert Gallatin, Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat. By Raymond WaltersJr., New York, The Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. x + 461. $7.00 pp. 136-138

William Miller

Ekonomi och Religion. By Kurt Samuelsson. Stockholm, KF:s Bokförlag, 1957. Pp. 175. 11 Sw. crowns pp. 138-140

Lennart Jörberg

Anaconda. By Isaac F. Marcosson. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. Pp. 370. $5.00 pp. 141-142

Kenneth H. Myers

Volume 31, issue 4, 1957

An English Businessman in Sicily, 1806–1861* pp. 355-374

Irene D. Neu

Management's Responsibility to Society: The Growth of an Idea* pp. 375-384

Morrell Heald

Behind Teapot Dome: Some Personal Insights* pp. 385-402

David H. Stratton

Market Speculation in the Muckraker Era: The Popular Reaction pp. 403-413

Cedric B. Cowing

Installment Credit Before 1870 pp. 414-424

Robert A. Lynn

Bibliographical Note — The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University1 pp. 425-436

August C. Bolino

Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915–1933. By Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Pp. ix + 714. $8.95 pp. 437-439

John B. Rae

United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation: An Economic Analysis of an Anti-Trust Case. By Carl Kaysen. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. 1956. Pp. xi + 404. $6.50 pp. 439-440

T. Y. Shen

The Company and the Community. By Edward G. Nelson. Lawrence, Bureau of Business Research, University of Kansas, 1956. Pp. 433. $3.50 pp. 440-442

August C. Bolino

Merchants of Wine: Being a Centenary Account of the Fortunes of the House of Gilbey. By Alec Waugh. London, Cassell and Company, 1957. Pp. vii + 135. 18s. Od pp. 442-443

Basil L. Crapster

Imprints on History. By Madeline B. Stern. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1956. Pp. 492. $7.50 pp. 443-445

Frank W. Tuttle

Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering. By T. A. Boyd, with Introduction by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957. Pp. xii + 242. $4.50 pp. 445-447

Kendall Beaton

Volume 31, issue 3, 1957

The Business of Whaling in America in the 1850's pp. 261-291

David Moment

Charles Elliott Perkins pp. 292-309

R. C. Overton

Twentieth-Century Beginnings in Employee Counseling pp. 310-322

Henry Eilbirt

A Journal for Company Histories and Entrepreneurial Biography1 pp. 323-336

Wilhelm Treue and Klaus H. Wolff

The Australian Wheat-Growing Industry, 1788–1948. By Edgars Dunsdorfs. Australia, Melbourne University Press; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1957. Pp. 547. $10.00 pp. 337-338

Alan Birch

The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini, 1333–1410. By Iris Origo. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Pp. xxii + 415. $7.50 pp. 338-340

Stanley S. Miller

American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860–1885. By Charlotte Erickson. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. x + 269. $4.75 pp. 340-342

Barry E. Supple

Alexander Hamilton, Youth to Maturity, 1755–1788. By Broadus Mitchell. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. xvi + 675. $8.75 pp. 342-346

William Miller

Samuel Gompers — American Statesman. By Florence Calvert Thorne. New York, Philosophical Library, 1957. Pp. xi + 175. $3.75 pp. 346-347

Josepha M. Perry

Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore, 1783–1819. By Stuart Weems Bruchey. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1956. Pp. 411. $5.00 pp. 347-348

Elva Tooker

The Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1818–1866: A Historical and Analytical Study. By Peter L. Payne and Lance E. Davis. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1956. Pp. 188. $4.00 pp. 348-350

Gerald T. White

Remington Arms in American History. By Alden Hatch. New York, Rinehart & Company, 1956. Pp. 359. $6.50 pp. 350-351

Frank W. Tuttle

The American Bankers Association: Its Past and Present. By Wilbert M. Schneider. Washington, D. C., Public Affairs Press, 1956. Pp. 275. $5.00 pp. 351-354

Harris Proschansky

Volume 31, issue 2, 1957

A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York pp. 143-178

Barry E. Supple

The Eastern Rail-road Company, 1855–1884 pp. 179-208

Charles J. Kennedy

Rochester's Flour-Milling Industry in Pre-Canal Days pp. 209-225

Edmond M. Beame

The Early Evolution of Business Organization in France pp. 226-243

Judah Adelson

DeLesseps of Suez: The Man and His Times. By Charles Beatty. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1956. Pp. 334. $4.50 pp. 246-248

Werner Baer

Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860–1900. By Edward Chase Kirkland. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. ix + 175. $3.00 pp. 249-251

Barry E. Supple

Baking in America. Vol. I, Economic Development. By William G. Panschar. Pp. xvi + 251; Vol. II, Market Organization and Competition. By Charles C. Slater. Pp. xviii + 458. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1956. $15.00 pp. 251-253

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

My Forty Years with Ford. By Charles E. Sorensen, with Samuel T. Williamson. New York, W. W. Norton and Co., 1956. Pp. 345. $5.95 pp. 253-255

John B. Rae

Aetna Life Insurance Company: Its First Hundred Years. By Richard Hooker. Hartford, Connecticut, The Company, 1956. Pp. 259 pp. 255-257

Harris Proschansky

The Story of the Life Underwriters Association of Canada: 1906–1956. By Leslie W. Dunstall. Toronto, Canada, 1956. Pp. 94 pp. 257-259

Harris Proschansky

Volume 31, issue 1, 1957

George Gunton: Pioneer Spokesman for a Labor-Big Business Entente pp. 1-22

Jack Blicksilver

Frederick Taylor and Frank Gilbreth: Competition in Scientific Management pp. 23-34

Milton J. Nadworny

Academic Education for Business: Its Development and the Contribution of Ignaz Jastrow (1856–1937): In Commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Jastrow's Birth pp. 35-91

Fritz Redlich

The Eastern Rail-road Company to 1855* pp. 92-123

Charles J. Kennedy

Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States. By Kendall Beaton. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1957. Pp. xiii + 815. $7.50 pp. 125-127

Elizabeth Bricker Currier

Vision: A Saga of the Sky. By Harold Mansfield. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Pp. x + 389. $5.00 pp. 127-128

Merrill J. Roberts

Anaconda: Life of Marcus Daly, The Copper King. By H. Minar Shoebotham. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, The Stackpole Company, 1956. Pp. 217. $4.50 pp. 128-130

Kenneth H. Myers

Public Control of Economic Enterprise. By Harold Koontz and Richard W. Gable. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956. Pp. 851. $7.00 pp. 130-132

Harris Proschansky

The Beekmans of New York in Politics and Commerce 1647–1877. By Philip L. White. New York, the New-York Historical Society, 1956. Pp. xxxi + 705. $10.00. - The Beekman Mercantile Papers 1746–1799. Transcribed and edited by Philip L. White. New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1956. Three volumes (continuously paged). Pp. vi + 1485. $25.00 pp. 132-135

Lawrence H. Leder and Vincent P. Carosso

The American Railroad Network, 1861–1890. By George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. viii + 113. $3.75 pp. 135-136

William T. Doherty

Rochester — The Quest for Quality, 1890–1925. By Blake McKelvey. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 432. $6.00 pp. 136-138

Wayne G. Broehl

Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 362. $6.50 pp. 138-139

William Miller