Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 30, issue 4, 1956

The Promoting and the Financing of the Suez Canal pp. 361-381

Werner Baer

The American Businessman at the Turn of the Century1 pp. 382-443

Marian V. Sears

Public Accounting in the United States from 1928 to 1951 pp. 444-471

James Don Edwards

The Origins and Establishment of the First Bank of the United States pp. 472-492

H.Wayne Morgan

The Resurgent Years: History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), 1911–1927 (Vol. II). By George S. Gibb and Evelyn H. Knowlton. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1956. Pp. xxix + 754. $7.50 pp. 493-495

Gerald T. White

The Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue Supplement Covering Material Published Through 1776 with Data upon Cognate Items in other Harvard Libraries (Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachusetts). 1956. Pp. vi + 175. $4.00 pp. 495-495

Barry E. Supple

Chessie's Road. By Charles W. Turner. Richmond, Va., Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1956. Pp. xi + 286. $4.90 pp. 495-497

James F. Doster

The McCormick Reaper Legend: The True Story of a Great Invention. By Norbert Lyons. New York, Exposition Press, 1955. Pp. 217. $4.00 pp. 497-499

Frank W. Tuttle

The Power to Go. By Merrill Denison. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1956. Pp. 324. $5.00 pp. 499-500

John B. Rae

Small Business in Brass Fabricating: The Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Company of Waterbury. By Theodore F. Marburg. New York, New York University Press, 1956. Pp. 116. $5.00 pp. 500-502

George S. Gibb

Volume 30, issue 3, 1956

History and the Businessman* pp. 241-259

W. Woodruf

The Cole Motor Car Company1 pp. 260-273

Howard R. DeLancy

Railroads and the Changing Face of Britain, 1825–1901 pp. 274-296

Eric L. Waugh

Oil — Canada's New Wealth pp. 297-328

Oliver Knight

Some Implications of the Recent Literature on the History of the Petroleum Industry: A Review Article* pp. 329-346

Ralph W. Hidy

Designed for Digging. The First 75 Years of Bucyrus-Erie Company. By Harold F. Williamson and Kenneth H. MyersII. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1955. Pp. 384. $7.50 pp. 347-348

John B. Rae

The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Private Enterprise and Public Policy, 1862–1906. By Arthur Menzies Johnson. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. xiii + 307. $4.50 pp. 348-349

Elizabeth Bricker Currier

Money at Interest. The Farm Mortgage on the Middle Border. By Allan G. Bogue. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. viii + 293. $4.00 pp. 350-351

Lewis Atherton

The Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations. By Donald L. McMurry. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 387. $6.00 pp. 351-353

Robert A. Christie

The Original Has This Signature — W. K. Kellogg. By Horace B. Powell. New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956. Pp. 358. $5.00 pp. 353-355

F. W. Tuttle

Bergdorf's on the Plaza: The Story of Bergdorf Goodman and a Half-Century of American Fashion. By Booton Herndon. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Pp. x + 244. $4.50 pp. 355-356

James H. Soltow

Volume 30, issue 2, 1956

Management Decentralization: An Historical Analysis pp. 111-174

Alfred Chandler

Vicissitudes of the South Carolina Railroad, 1865-1878: A Case Study in Reconstruction and Regional Traffic Development pp. 175-195

James F. Doster

The Beginnings of the Money-Back Guarantee and the One-Price Policy in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, 1833–1880 pp. 196-210

Wayland A. Tonning

Some Significant Developments of Public Accounting in the United States pp. 211-225

James Don Edwards

Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Oil Pioneer of the Middle West. By Paul H. Giddens. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1955. Pp. xviii + 741. $7.50 pp. 227-228

Harold F. Williamson

Great Enterprise; Growth and Behavior of the Big Corporation. By Herrymon Maurer. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. 313. $5.00 pp. 228-230

Alfred Chandler

The Farmer from Merna. A Biography of George J. Mecherle and a History of the State Farm Insurance Companies of Bloomington, Illinois. By Karl Schriftgiesser. New York, Random House, Inc., 1955. Pp. 243. $3.50 pp. 230-232

Harris Proschansky

Distributions Place in the American Economy since 1869. By Harold Barger. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xviii + 222. $4.50 pp. 232-235

Wayland A. Tonning

Labor's Untold Story. By Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais. New York, Cameron Associates, 1955. Pp. 402. $4.75 pp. 235-236

Josepha Perry

Yankees and Creoles: The Trade between North America and the West Indies before the American Revolution. By Richard Pares. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 175. $4.75 pp. 236-238

Barry E. Supple

Studies in Ancient Technology. By R. J. Forbes. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1955. 3 vols. Pp. x + 194; vi + 215; vi + 268. 52 guilders pp. 238-240

I. Bernard Cohen

Volume 30, issue 1, 1956

The Merchant and the Muse: Commercial Influences on American Popular Music before the Civil War pp. 1-17

James H. Stone

Robert Livingston (1654-1728): Businessman of Colonial New York pp. 18-45

Lawrence H. Leder and Vincent P. Carosso

Louis Houck: Opponent and Imitator of Jay Gould pp. 46-56

William Thomas Doherty

The Motor Transportation Revolution pp. 57-95

Merrill J. Roberts

Pioneering in Big Business, 1882–1911: History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), by Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1955. Pp. xxx + 839. $7.50 pp. 97-99

Herbert Heaton

Fabulous Dustpan, The Story of the Hoover. By Frank G. Hoover. Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company, 1955. Pp. 250. $3.75 pp. 99-100

Elizabeth Bricker Currier

Scientific Management and the Unions, 1900–1932, A Historical Analysis. By Milton J. Nadworny. (Studies in Entrepreneurial History.) Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. vii + 187. $3.75 pp. 101-103

Hugh G. J. Aitken

The Big Business Executive. The Factors that Made Him, 1900–1950. By Mabel Newcomer. New York, Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xii + 164. $4.00 pp. 104-105

John B. Rae

A History of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. By Gerald T. White. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii + 229. $5.00 pp. 105-106

Harris Proschansky

Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry, 1928–1952. By W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Pp. xxi + 315. $3.50 pp. 107-108

Mabel Newcomer

Merchants, Farmers, & Railroads: Railroad Regulation and New York Politics, 1850–1887. By Lee Benson. (Published in Co-operation with the Committee on Research in Economic History.) Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. 310. $5.50 pp. 108-109

Irene D. Neu

Volume 29, issue 4, 1955

Are Business History and Economic Theory Compatible?1 pp. 285-297

Donald E. Stout

The Electric Vehicle Company: A Monopoly that Missed1 pp. 298-311

John B. Rae

Banking Enterprises in Utah, 1847–1880 pp. 312-334

Leonard J. Arrington

Department Stores in Down State Illinois, 1889–1943 pp. 335-349

Wayland A. Tonning

The Concentration of Banking Power in Nevada: An Historical Analysis1 pp. 350-362

F. W. Barsalou

Theodore Roosevelt and the State Trust Company pp. 363-370

Avery D. Andrews

The Peaks of Lyell. By Geoffrey Blainey. Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1954; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x + 310. $5.00 pp. 371-373

Kenneth Wiggins Porter

Broadlooms and Businessmen: A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. By John S. Ewing and Nancy P. Norton. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xx + 439. $9.00 pp. 373-374

Harold F. Williamson

The Road to Spindletop, Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901. By Dr. John S. Spratt. Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, 1955. Pp. 337. $5.00 pp. 374-376

Everett L. DeGolyer

Edwin D. Morgan, 1811–1883; Merchant in Politics. By James A. Rawley. New York, Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. 321. $5.00 pp. 376-377

Joe B. Frantz

The Barley and the Stream: The Molson Story. By Merrill Denison. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1955. Pp. xiv + 384 pp. 377-378

Vincent P. Carosso

Labor: Free and Slave. By Bernard Mandel. New York, Associated Authors, 1955. Pp.256 pp. 378-380

Carl N. Degler

Nathan Trotter: Philadelphia Merchant, 1787–1853. By Elva Tooker. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii + 276. $6.00 pp. 380-382

Bernard Bailyn

Volume 29, issue 3, 1955

Can the Records Manager Help the Business Historian?1 pp. 211-217

Richard C. Overton

Records Management and the “Paperwork Age” pp. 218-226

Arthur Barcan

The Business Use of Business History pp. 227-237

James H. Soltow

The Origins of the National Association of Life Underwriters* pp. 238-262

Harris Proschansky

Recent Research in British Accounting History pp. 263-276

Mary E. Murphy

Foreign Oil and the Free World. By Leonard M. Fanning. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1954. Pp. xiii + 400. $6.00 pp. 277-277

Kendall Beaton

Hugh Roy Cullen: A Story of American Opportunity. By Ed Kilman and Theon Wright. New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954. Pp. 384. $4.00 pp. 278-279

Elizabeth Bricker Currier

The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century. By Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. viii + 249. $4.75 pp. 279-281

Lawrence H. Leder

Man Against Fire: Fire Insurance — Protection from Disaster. By Bob Considine. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1955. Pp. 346. $5.00 pp. 281-282

Harris Proschansky

British Railway History. An outline from the accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830–1876. By Hamilton Ellis, with an introduction by Roger Lloyd. London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. [1954]. Pp. ix + 443. $6.75 pp. 282-283

James J. Talman

Volume 29, issue 2, 1955

The Rise of a Market for Industrial Securities, 1887-1902 pp. 105-138

Thomas R. Navin and Marian V. Sears

Bank Enterprisers in a Western Town, 1815-1822 pp. 139-156

Harry R. Stevens

Administering a Steam-Navigation Company in China, 1862–1867 pp. 157-188

Kwang-Ching Liu

The Reformer Reformed: John H. Reagan and Railroad Regulation pp. 189-196

Gerald Nash

The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches. By Irvin G. Wyllie. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1954. Pp. 210. $4.00. - The Reputation of the American Businessman. By Sigmund Diamond. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. 209. $4.00. - The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's. By James Warren Prothro. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1954. Pp. x + 256. $4.75 pp. 197-200

Ray Ginger

History of Marshall Field and Company, 1852–1906. By Robert W. Twyman. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954. Pp. 249. $5.00 pp. 200-200

Elspeth Rostow

Industrial Voyage. By Paul W. Litchfield. Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1954. Pp. 347. $4.50 pp. 200-202

John B. Rae

Robert Estienne: Royal Printer. By Elizabeth Armstrong. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. xxi + 310. $10.00 pp. 202-203

Sigmund Diamond

The Armstrongs of the Great Western. Their Times, Surroundings and Contemporaries. By H. Holcroft. London, Railway World Limited, 1953. Pp. 140. - The Midland Railway. By C. Hamilton Ellis. London, Ian Allan Ltd., 1953. Pp. viii + 192 pp. 203-204

James J. Talman

The Welland Canal Company. A Study in Canadian Enterprise. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. ix + 178 pp. 204-206

O. W. Main

The Shocking History of Advertising. By E. S. Turner. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Pp. 341 pp. 206-207

Ralph M. Hower

Chartered Banking in Canada. By A. B. Jamieson. Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1953. Pp. 394 pp. 207-208

J. C. Weldon

Evolution of Cost Accounting to 1925. By S. Paul Garner. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1954. Pp. 416. $6.50 pp. 208-209

Clarence B. Nickerson

Volume 29, issue 1, 1955

The Fleece and the Loom: Wool Growers and Wool Manufacturers during the Civil War Decade pp. 1-27

Harry Brown

Dr. Gesner's Kerosene: The Start of American Oil Refining pp. 28-53

Kendall Beaton

Professionalization of Leadership in the Big Business Corporation1 pp. 54-63

Mabel Newcomer

Engineering Education as Preparation for Management: A Study of M.I.T. Alumni1 pp. 64-74

John B. Rae

Recruitment of Business Leaders: A Commentary on the Newcomer and Rae Papers1 pp. 75-78

James Abegglen

The American System: A Review Article pp. 81-96

Robert A. Lively

Three Stars for the Colonel. By James A. Clark. New York, Random House, Inc., 1954. Pp. xv + 221. $4.00 pp. 97-98

Carl Coke Rister

History of American Industrial Science. By Courtney Robert Hall. New York, Library Publishers, 1954. Pp. 453. $4.95 pp. 98-99

James G. Kelso

The History of Kirkstall Forge. By Rodney Butler. York, England, William Sessions, Ltd., The Ebor Press, 1954. Pp. 265 pp. 99-100

E. N. Hartley

Business Without Boundary: The Story of General Mills. By James Gray. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1954. Pp. xiii + 343. $4.75 pp. 100-102

Rodney C. Loehr

Trees to News. By Carl Wiegman. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1953. Pp. 364. $4.50 pp. 102-103

Edwin T. Coman