Enterprise and Society

Editor's Introduction:

Kenneth Lipartito

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Dissertation Summaries:

Dalit Baranoff

Shaped by Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790–1920
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Anna Spadavecchia

State Subsidies and the Sources of Company Finance in Italian Industrial Districts, 1951–1991
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 571-580; doi:10.1093/es/khi093 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Macdougall

The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876–1926
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 581-587; doi:10.1093/es/khi092 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher James Tassava

Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940–1945
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 588-600; doi:10.1093/es/khi090 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Ronald R. Kline and Thomas C. Lassman

Competing Research Traditions in American Industry: Uncertain Alliances between Engineering and Science at Westinghouse Electric, 1886–1935
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 601-645; doi:10.1093/es/khi123 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Drew Vande Creek

Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905–1927
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 646-681; doi:10.1093/es/khi094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose

The Neglected Legacy of Lancashire Cotton: Industrial Clusters and the U.K. Outdoor Trade, 1960–1990
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 682-709; doi:10.1093/es/khi124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Zachary M. Schrag

Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7138-7, $54.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 710-712; doi:10.1093/es/khi116 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William T. Rowe

Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. vii + 398 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4639-7, $65.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 712-714; doi:10.1093/es/khi109 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ling A. Shiao

Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xvii + 391 pp. ISBN 0-7748-1040-8, $85.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 714-716; doi:10.1093/es/khi118 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Metzler

Laura Hein. Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan. Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, Calif.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and University of California Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-520-24347-1, $45.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 716-718; doi:10.1093/es/khi111 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tamás Szmrecsányi

Todd A. Diacon. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3210-8, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3249-3, $21.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 718-720; doi:10.1093/es/khi120 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John R. Lampe

Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Volume I: Industrialization, 1700–1860. xix + 536 pp. ISBN 0-521-82036, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52736, $40.00 (paper). Volume II: Economic Maturity, 1860–1939. xix + 552 pp. ISBN 0-521-82037, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52737, $40.00 (paper). Volume III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939–2000, xix + 573 pp. ISBN 0-521-82038, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52738, $40.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 720-724; doi:10.1093/es/khi102 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Quinn

Richard Dale. The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. vi + 192 pp. ISBN 0-691-11971-6, $29.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 724-726; doi:10.1093/es/khi113 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ann M. Carlos

Søren Mentz. The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London, 1660–1740. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN 87-7289-909-3, $25.00 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 726-728; doi:10.1093/es/khi098 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dalit Baranoff

Robin Pearson. Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-7546-336302, $99.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 728-730; doi:10.1093/es/khi097 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugo van Driel

Guus Veenendaal. Spoorwegen in Nederland. Van 1834 tot nu. Amsterdam: Boom, 2004. 604 pp. ISBN 90-5352-980-2, 49.50.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 730-732; doi:10.1093/es/khi121 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Kobrak

Marc Flandreau. The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848–1873. Translated by Owen Leeming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xix + 319 pp. ISBN 0-19-925786-8, $95.00. • Youssef Cassis and Eric Bussiere, eds. London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-19-92649-1, $95.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 732-735; doi:10.1093/es/khi106 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Peter Hayes. From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. ISBN 0-521-78227-9, $40.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 736-737; doi:10.1093/es/khi112 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pamela W. Laird

Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia, eds. Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 369 pp. ISBN 0-19-925189-4, $99.50 (cloth); 0-19-925190-8, $29.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 738-740; doi:10.1093/es/khi108 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Howard B. Rock

Stephen P. Rice. Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 230 pp. ISBN 0-520-22781-6, $49.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 740-742; doi:10.1093/es/khi115 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David J. Sturdy

John Landers. The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 440 pp. ISBN 0-19-924916-4, £60.00 (cloth); 0-19-927957-8, £22.50 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 743-744; doi:10.1093/es/khi119 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William G. Robbins

Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4854-3, $24.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 745-746; doi:10.1093/es/khi114 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terence R. Gourvish

Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay. The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xiv + 379 pp. ISBN 0-262-20151-8, $40.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 747-748; doi:10.1093/es/khi095 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan E. Hirsch

Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83466-X, $60.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 749-751; doi:10.1093/es/khi104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. L. Anderson

Neil Dahlstrom and Jeremy Dahlstrom. The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xix + 204 pp. ISBN 0-87580-336-9, $24.00
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 751-753; doi:10.1093/es/khi096 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maury Klein

Richard J. Orsi. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 0-520-20019-5, $29.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 753-755; doi:10.1093/es/khi105 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vicky Saker Woeste

Douglas Brinkley. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003. New York: Viking, 2003. xxii + 858 pp. ISBN 0-670-03181-X, $34.95. • Max Wallace. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. 465 pp. ISBN 0-312-29022-5, $27.95
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 755-758; doi:10.1093/es/khi122 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph M. Hawes

Lisa Jacobson. Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-231-11388-9, $35.00 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 758-760; doi:10.1093/es/khi103 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Sheumaker

Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak, eds. Consuming Motherhood. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. ix + 323 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3429-1, $62.00 (cloth); 0-8135-3430-5, $22.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 760-762; doi:10.1093/es/khi117 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Levenstein

Jennifer Mittelstadt. From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2922-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5587-1, $19.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 762-764; doi:10.1093/es/khi110 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Elvins

Marina Moskowitz. Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7947-7, $45.00.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 765-766; doi:10.1093/es/khi099 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dale L. Flesher

Brett Williams. Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 154 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3817-6, $24.95 (cloth).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 767-768; doi:10.1093/es/khi100 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald Friedman

Ernesto R. Gantman. Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 185 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4186-4, $99.95.
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 769-771; doi:10.1093/es/khi101 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim Krywulak

Kent H. Hughes. Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005. xxiii + 542 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8204-4, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8018-8203-6, $24.95 (paper).
Enterprise Soc 2005 6: 771-773; doi:10.1093/es/khi107 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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