Enterprise and Society

Guest Editors' Introduction:

Tamás Szmrecsanyi and Steven Topik

Business History in Latin America
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 179-186; doi:10.1093/es/khh029 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Anne Hanley

Is It Who You Know? Entrepreneurs and Bankers in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 187-225; doi:10.1093/es/khh030 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Teresa Ribeiro de Oliveira

The Origins of the Pioneer Cotton Mills in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1868–1879: A Reassessment
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 226-253; doi:10.1093/es/khh031 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julio E. Moreno

J. Walter Thompson, the Good Neighbor Policy, and Lessons in Mexican Business Culture, 1920–1950
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 254-280; doi:10.1093/es/khh032 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gabriela Recio

Lawyers' Contribution to Business Development in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 281-306; doi:10.1093/es/khh033 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Kenneth Lipartito

Joel Mokyr, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. 5 vols. ISBN 0-19-510507-9, $820.00.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 307-310; doi:10.1093/es/khh034 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen Miller Russell

Timothy deWaal Malefyt and Brian Moeran, eds. Advertising Cultures. New York: Berg, 2003. xiii + 220 pp. ISBN 1-85973-678-5, $23.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 310-311; doi:10.1093/es/khh035 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rory M. Miller

Noel Maurer. The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876–1932. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xiv + 250 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4285-5, $60.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 312-313; doi:10.1093/es/khh036 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anton Schuurman

David Ormrod. The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 400 pp. ISBN 0-521-81926-1, $75.00.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 314-315; doi:10.1093/es/khh037 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Geoffrey Channon. Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830–1940: Studies in Economic and Business History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001. xi + 341 pp. ISBN 1-84014-253-7, $84.95.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 316-318; doi:10.1093/es/khh038 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Friedel

Pierre Boisard. Camembert: A National Myth. Translated by Richard Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii +254 pp. ISBN 0-520-2250-3, $29.95.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 318-320; doi:10.1093/es/khh039 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Wardley

Bob Hancké. Large Firms and Institutional Change: Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring in France. New York and Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii +222 pp. ISBN 0-19-925205-X, $85.00, £50.00.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 320-323; doi:10.1093/es/khh040 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Perkins

Peter Saunders. The Ends and Means of Welfare: Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 300 pp. ISBN 0-521-81892-3, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-52443-1, $25.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 323-325; doi:10.1093/es/khh041 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Coopey

Simon Learmount. Corporate Governance: What Can Be Learned from Japan? Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002. 179 pp. ISBN 0-19-925291-2, $70.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 325-327; doi:10.1093/es/khh042 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Martin Bruegel. Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2835-6, $64.95 (cloth); 0-8223-2849-6, $21.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 327-329; doi:10.1093/es/khh043 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Randall L. Patton

Robert Michael Smith. From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xviii + 179 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1465-8, $44.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1466-6, $16.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 329-332; doi:10.1093/es/khh044 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas A. Castillo

Robert H. Zieger and Gilbert J. Gall. American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore, Md., and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 3rd ed., 2002. xii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7078-X, $17.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 332-334; doi:10.1093/es/khh045 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David B. Sicilia

Steven W. Usselman. Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology and Politics in America, 1840–1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xv + 398 pp. ISBN 0-521-80636, $65.00.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 334-336; doi:10.1093/es/khh046 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lynne Pierson Doti

Claire Strom. Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. 228 pp. ISBN 0-295-98348-5, $35.00.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 337-338; doi:10.1093/es/khh047 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Herzig

Julia Kirk Blackwelder. Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xi + 183 pp. ISBN 1-58544-244-5, $29.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 338-340; doi:10.1093/es/khh048 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis P. Cain

Phil Schaaf. Sports, Inc.: 100 Years of Sports Business. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004. 394 pp. ISBN 1-59102-112-X, $25.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 341-342; doi:10.1093/es/khh049 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Elvins

Philip E. Orbanes. The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. xvii +245 pp. ISBN 1-59139-269-1, $29.95.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 343-344; doi:10.1093/es/khh050 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephanie Dyer

M. Jeffrey Hardwick. Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 288 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3762-5, $29.95.
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 345-346; doi:10.1093/es/khh051 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Kirsch

John Cassidy. Dot Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. 372 pp. ISBN 0-06-000880-6, $25.95 (cloth); 0-06-000881-4, $13.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 347-349; doi:10.1093/es/khh052 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert MacDougall

Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson. Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x +310 pp. ISBN 0-521-81616-5, $29.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 349-351; doi:10.1093/es/khh053 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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