Enterprise and Society

Articles:

Jeffrey A. Engel

The Surly Bonds: American Cold War Constraints on British Aviation
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 1-44; doi:10.1093/es/khi001 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David L. Stebenne

Thomas J. Watson and the Business-Government Relationship, 1933–1956
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 45-75; doi:10.1093/es/khi002 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Henri Delanghe

Postwar Japanese Cotton Textile Investment in Brazil, 1955–1980
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 76-97; doi:10.1093/es/khi003 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tony Webster

An Early Global Business in a Colonial Context: The Strategies, Management, and Failure of John Palmer and Company of Calcutta, 1780–1830
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 98-133; doi:10.1093/es/khi004 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Communications:

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Response to the Symposium: Framing Business History
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 134-137; doi:10.1093/es/khi028 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Preface to the Paperback Edition of Inventing the Electronic Century
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 138-143; doi:10.1093/es/khi027 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Giorgio Riello

David Jenkins. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Volumes I and II. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 1191 pp. ISBN 0-521-34107-8, $375.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 144-146; doi:10.1093/es/khi007 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin Pearson

Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 350 pp. ISBN 0-521-82054-5, $70.00
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 147-149; doi:10.1093/es/khi005 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simone Selva

Francis J. Gavin. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0–8078–2823–8, $45.00
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 149-151; doi:10.1093/es/khi008 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George David Smith

B. Mark Smith. The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. xiii+ 344 pp. ISBN 0-374-28175-0, $25.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 151-152; doi:10.1093/es/khi026 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nagendra Rao

G. Balachandran, ed. India and the World Economy, 1850–1950. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi + 319 pp. ISBN 0-19-565982-1, $39.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 152-154; doi:10.1093/es/khi006 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen L. Morgan

Brett Sheehan. Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-674-01080-9, $59.95
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 154-156; doi:10.1093/es/khi012 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Birgitte Holten

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750–1850. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii + 273 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4465-3, $60.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4859-4, $24.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 156-158; doi:10.1093/es/khi011 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marshall C. Eakin

Muriel McAvoy. Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 337 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2613-X, $27.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 158-160; doi:10.1093/es/khi010 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maurice Demers

Julio Moreno. Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xi + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2802-5, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5478-6, $21.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 160-162; doi:10.1093/es/khi009 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Read

Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 364 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3159-4, $79.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3196-9, $22.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 162-165; doi:10.1093/es/khi013 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr.

Hubert Bonin, Yannick Lung, and Steven Tolliday, eds. Ford, 1903–2003: The European History. 2 vols. Paris: Editions P.L.A.G.E., 2003. 611 + 630 pp. ISBN 2-914369-06-9, 175
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 165-168; doi:10.1093/es/khi014 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marlis Schweitzer

Nancy J. Troy. Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. xi + 438 pp. ISBN 0-262-20140-2, $62.00 (cloth); 0-262-70103-0, $24.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 169-171; doi:10.1093/es/khi021 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maurice Kirby

Jon Agar. The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003. viii + 554 pp. ISBN 0-262-01202-2, $50.00 (32.95)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 171-172; doi:10.1093/es/khi018 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Mau

Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 200 pp. ISBN 0-19-925699-3, $35.00
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 173-174; doi:10.1093/es/khi020 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean Patrick Adams

David R. Meyer. The Roots of American Industrialization. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii+333 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7141-7, $45.00
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 175-177; doi:10.1093/es/khi015 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dale L. Flesher

Robert E. Wright and George David Smith. Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xxii + 501 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9397-5, $50.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 177-179; doi:10.1093/es/khi017 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pamela Laird

David Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. ISBN 1-59139-147-4, $29.95
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 179-181; doi:10.1093/es/khi019 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amy S. Bix

Kathleen G. Donohue. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii+326 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7426-2, $45.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 181-183; doi:10.1093/es/khi016 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven W. Usselman

Richard S. Tedlow. The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding Father and Son. New York: Harper Business, 2003. x + 340 pp. ISBN 0-06-001405-9, $26.95 (cloth); 0-06-001406-7, $15.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 184-189; doi:10.1093/es/khi023 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven W. Usselman

Kevin Maney. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-471-41463-8, $29.95 (cloth); 0-471-67925-9, $16.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 184-189; doi:10.1093/es/khi023a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert E. Weems, Jr.

Neil Lanctot. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3807-9, $34.95
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 189-191; doi:10.1093/es/khi024 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W. Thomas White

Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. New York: One World (Ballantine Book), 2004. xv + 320 pp. ISBN 0-345-45347-6, $24.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 192-194; doi:10.1093/es/khi025 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. V. Nelles

Carlos Rufin. The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry: Shifting Currents. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. ISBN 1-84376-203-X, $90.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 194-196; doi:10.1093/es/khi022 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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