Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 28, issue 4, 1954

A Study in Merger: Formation of the International Mercantile Marine Company pp. 291-328

Thomas R. Navin and Marian V. Sears

The Conflict over Railroad Regulation in Alabama pp. 329-342

James F. Doster

The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, 1899–19191 pp. 343-365

Thomas C. Cochran and Ray Ginger

A Study of Small Business Failure: Smith & Griggs of Waterbury pp. 366-384

Theodore F. Marburg

Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company. By Allan Nevins. New York, Scribners, 1954. Pp. 688. $6.75 pp. 387-389

Alfred Chandler

Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America N.T. & S.A. By Marquis James and Bessie Rowland James. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1954. Pp. 566. $5.00 pp. 390-391

Ralph W. Hidy

Arid Domain. The Santa Fe Railway and Its Western Land Grant. By William S. Greever. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1954. Pp. x + 184. $4.00 pp. 391-392

Paul W. Gates

Planter Management and Capitalism in Ante-Bellum Georgia: The Journal of Hugh Frazer Grant, Ricegrower. Edited with introductory chapters by Albert Virgil House. New York, Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. xvii + 329. $4.75. - Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821–1909. Edited with an introduction by Arney R. Childs. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1953. Pp. xviii + 148. $4.50 pp. 392-394

Reynold M. Wik

The House of Morrell. By Lawrence Oakley Cheever. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Torch Press, 1948. Pp. xi + 303 pp. 394-395

Marian V. Sears

A Man with Clay Feet. By Kenneth McM. Dickey. Kansas City, privately printed, 1953. Pp. 48. $2.00 pp. 395-396

Thomas R. Navin

A Century of Banking in Wisconsin. By Theodore A. Andersen. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954. Pp. 226. $4.00 pp. 396-397

L. M. Little

A Merchant Prince of the Nineteenth Century: William E. Dodge. By Richard Lowitt. New York, Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. xii + 384. $5.00 pp. 397-398

Elva Tooker

From Mine to Market. The History of Coal Transportation on the Norfolk and Western Railway. By Joseph T. Lambie. New York, New York University Press, 1954. Pp. xviii + 380. $6.00 pp. 398-399

John B. Rae

Volume 28, issue 3, 1954

Origins of the Statutory Export Monopolies of British West Africa1 pp. 197-213

P. T. Bauer

Institutional Foundations of Pricing Policy in the Steel Industry pp. 214-235

Marvin J. Barloon

Selling Cut-Over Lands in Wisconsin1 pp. 236-247

Lucile Kane

Patterns of American Railroad Finance, 1830–50 pp. 248-263

Alfred Chandler

Gompers and Business Unionism, 1873–90 pp. 264-275

Bernard Mandel

American Business Corporations until 1860. By Edwin M. Dodd. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. xix + 524. $7.50 pp. 276-278

John P. Frank

Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua. By Byron Fairchild. Ithaca, New York, Published for the American Historical Association by the Cornell University Press, 1954. Pp. vii + 223. $3.50 pp. 278-280

Bernard Bailyn

American Life Convention, 1906–1952: A Study in the History of Life Insurance. By R. Carlyle Buley. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953. 2 vols. Pp. xxx + 680; 681–1,397. $15 pp. 280-282

Laurence J. Ackerman

Steam Power on the American Farm. By Reynold M. Wik. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. Pp. ix + 288. $5.00 pp. 283-284

Lewis E. Atherton

British Immigrants in Industrial America, 1790–1950. By Rowland T. Berthoff. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. Pp. 296. $5.00. - European Impressions of the American Worker. By Robert W. Smuts. New York, Kings Crown Press, 1953. Pp. 62. $1.50 pp. 284-286

Charlotte Erickson

The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio: A Railroad that Had to Expand or Expire. (Indiana University School of Business Study No. 36.) By James Hutton Lemly. Homewood, Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1953. Pp. viii + 347. $6.65 pp. 287-288

Charles J. Kennedy

Rich's of Atlanta: The Story of a Store since 1867. By Henry Givens Baker. Atlanta, Georgia, University of Georgia School of Business Administration, Division of Research, 1953. Pp. 411. $7.50 pp. 288-289

Robert W. Twyman

Volume 28, issue 2, 1954

The American Shipping Industry since 1914 pp. 105-127

John G. B. Hutchins

The Significance of Business History pp. 128-140

R. Richard Wohl

The Impact of Business on Protestantism, 1900–29 pp. 141-153

William T. Doherty

Financing a Steam-Navigation Company in China, 1861–621 pp. 154-181

Kwang-Ching Liu

The Electrical Manufacturers, 1875–1900. By Harold C. Passer. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. Pp. xviii + 412. $6.00 pp. 182-184

John B. Rae

Railroads of New York: A Study of Government Aid, 1826–1875. By Harry H. Pierce. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. Pp. 208. $3.00 pp. 185-186

Martin Deming Lewis

Railroad Leaders, 1845–1890: The Business Mind in Action. By Thomas C. Cochran. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. Pp. xii + 564. $7.50 pp. 186-188

Richard C. Overton

Trust Banking in Washington. By Howard H. Preston. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1953. Pp. 145. $3.00 pp. 188-189

Leon M. Little

Sugar Country. By J. Carlyle Sitterson. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1953. Pp. xvi + 414. $6.00 pp. 189-190

Allan G. Bogue

Gulf to Rockies: The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver-Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861–1898. By Richard C. Overton. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1953. Pp. xiv + 410. Illustrated. Maps. $5.00 pp. 191-193

Jack Simmons

New Light on the History of the Great American Fortunes: American Millionaires of 1892 and 1902. Edited with an introduction by Sidney Ratner. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, Inc., 1953. Pp. xxvii + 146. $3.00 pp. 191-191

A. T. Brown

The Growth of Major Steel Companies, 1900–1950. By Gertrude G. Schroeder. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, LXX, no. 2, Baltimore, 1952. Pp. 244 pp. 193-193

T. R. N.,

Capitalism and the Historians. Edited by F. A. Hayek. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1954. Pp. 188. $3.00 pp. 194-195

R. G.,

Andrew Carnegie. By Alvin F. Harlow. New York, Julian Messner, Inc., 1953. Pp. 182. Index. $2.75 pp. 194-194

R. G.,

A History of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. By Thurman W. Van Metre. Bicentennial History of Columbia University Series, Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. 124 pp. 194-194

G. S. G.,

History of the Philadelphia National Bank: A Century and a Half of Philadelphia Banking, 1803–1953. By Nicholas B. Wainwright. P.p. Philadelphia, 1953. Pp. 263 pp. 194-194

T. R. N.,

Forbes: Telephone Pioneer. By Arthur S. Pier. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. Pp. 232. Index. $5.00 pp. 195-195

R. G.,

Volume 28, issue 1, 1954

The Expansion of Blast Furnace Capacity, 1938–52: A Study in Geographical Cost Differentials1 pp. 1-23

Marvin J. Barloon

The Mormon Tithing House: A Frontier Business Institution pp. 24-58

Leonard J. Arrington

Manufacturing in South Carolina, 1815–601 pp. 59-66

Ernest M. Lander

Labor in a Massachusetts Cotton Mill, 1853–601 pp. 67-91

Ray Ginger

The Status of Economic History: A Review Article pp. 92-99

Rondo E. Cameron

Encyclopedia of American History. Edited by Richard B. Morris. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1953. Pp. xv + 776. 32 maps and charts. $6.00 pp. 100-101

John G. B. Hutchins

Winchester: The Gun that Won the West. By Harold F. Williamson. Washington, D. C., Combat Forces Press, 1952. Pp. xvi + 494. $10.00 pp. 101-103

Richard N. Current

Israel Thorndike: Federalist Financier. By J. D. Forbes. Published for the Beverly Historical Society by the Exposition Press. New York, 1953. Pp. 160. Bibliographical note. $3.50 pp. 103-104

Clarence L. Ver Steeg