Enterprise and Society

Editor's Introduction:

William J. Hausman

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Dissertation Summaries:

Gerben Bakker

Entertainment Industrialized: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940
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Leslie Berlin

Entrepreneurship and the Rise of Silicon Valley: The Career of Robert Noyce, 1956–1990
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Teresa da Silva Lopes

The Growth and Survival of Multinationals in the Global Alcoholic Beverages Industry
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 592-598; doi:10.1093/es/khg046 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark R. Wilson

The Business of Civil War: Military Enterprise, the State, and Political Economy in the United States, 1850–1880
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 599-605; doi:10.1093/es/khg047 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Oscar Gelderblom

The Governance of Early Modern Trade: The Case of Hans Thijs, 1556–1611
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 606-639; doi:10.1093/es/khg048 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terence Kehoe and Charles Jacobson

Environmental Decision Making and DDT Production at Montrose Chemical Corporation of California
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 640-675; doi:10.1093/es/khg049 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Glenn Beamer and David E. Lewis

The Irrational Escalation of Commitment and the Ironic Labor Politics of the Rust Belt
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Reviews:

Mansel G. Blackford

Makoto Kasuya, ed. Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 235 pp. ISBN 0-19-925931-3, $64.50.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 707-708; doi:10.1093/es/khg051 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emma J. Lapsansky

Selwyn H. H. Carrington. The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775–1810. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvii + 362 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2557-5, $59.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 709-710; doi:10.1093/es/khg052 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Jones

Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber, eds. The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xvii + 348 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4207-3, $60.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4208-1, $24.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 711-712; doi:10.1093/es/khg053 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stuart McCook

Steve Striffler. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. xi + 242 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2836-4, $54.95 (cloth); 0-8223-2863-1, $18.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 713-714; doi:10.1093/es/khg054 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Morris L. Bian

Parks M. Coble. Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-520-23268-2, $60.00.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 715-716; doi:10.1093/es/khg055 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Judith Stein

Daniel Cohen. Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age. Translated by Susan Clay and Daniel Cohen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. 126 pp. ISBN 0-262-03302-X, $24.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 717-718; doi:10.1093/es/khg056 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Palmer

Paul Hendrix. Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch–Shell: Changing Control of World Oil, 1900–1940. Bristol, U.K.: Bristol Academic Press, 2002. viii + 275 pp. ISBN 0-9513762-8-4, £45.00.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 719-720; doi:10.1093/es/khg057 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean Patrick Adams

Howard Bodenhorn. State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 355 pp. ISBN 0-19-514776-6, $45.00. • Bruce H. Mann. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 344 pp. ISBN 0-674-00902-9, $29.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 721-725; doi:10.1093/es/khg058 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jocelyn Wills

Kim M. Gruenwald. River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790–1850. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 214 pp. ISBN 0-253-34132-9, $39.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 725-727; doi:10.1093/es/khg059 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James P. Kraft

Mark A. Eifler. Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 280 pp. ISBN 0-8263-2821-0, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8263-2822-9, $22.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 727-729; doi:10.1093/es/khg060 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

August W. Giebelhaus

Theresa M. Collins. Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 383 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2696-0, $34.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 729-731; doi:10.1093/es/khg061 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cindy Ott

Wendy A. Woloson. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6876-9, $44.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 731-733; doi:10.1093/es/khg062 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ken Fones-Wolf

Robert D. Johnston. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxiii + 394 pp. ISBN 0-691-09668-6, $35.00.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 733-735; doi:10.1093/es/khg063 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert F. Freeland

David Farber. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-226-23804-0, $27.50.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 735-737; doi:10.1093/es/khg064 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Whaples

Charles D. Chamberlain. Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xi + 288 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2429-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8203-2443-4, $19.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 738-739; doi:10.1093/es/khg065 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Weiss

Ross Knox Bassett. To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii + 421 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6809-2, $44.95.
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 740-741; doi:10.1093/es/khg066 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angel Kwolek-Folland

Glenna Matthews. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4154-9, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4796-2, $22.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 742-743; doi:10.1093/es/khg067 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christine Skwiot

Hal Rothman. Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxviii + 340 pp. ISBN 0-415-92612-2, $27.50 (cloth); 0-415-92613-0, $18.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 743-745; doi:10.1093/es/khg068 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis P. Cain

Costas Spirou and Larry Bennett. It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. xi + 212 pp. ISBN 0-87580-305-9, $28.50 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2003 4: 746-747; doi:10.1093/es/khg069 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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