Enterprise and Society -- Table of Contents (December 2006, 7 [4])

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Contents: December 2006, Volume 7, Number 4   [Index by Author]

       Editor's Introduction

       Presidential Address

       Dissertation Summaries

       Articles

       Reviews

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Editor's Introduction:

Kenneth Lipartito: Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 27, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 651-652; doi:10.1093/es/khl069 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Presidential Address:

Richard Sylla: Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790–1840

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 18, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 653-665; doi:10.1093/es/khl047 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Dissertation Summaries:

Shane Hamilton: Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 3, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 666-674; doi:10.1093/es/khl041 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Dan Breznitz: Innovation and the State—Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 13, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 675-685; doi:10.1093/es/khl043 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kim Phillips-Fein: Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals, and Politicians Against the New Deal, 1945–1964

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 27, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 686-694; doi:10.1093/es/khl045 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Daniel Levinson Wilk: Tales from the Elevator and Other Stories of Modern Service in New York City

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 18, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 695-704; doi:10.1093/es/khl046 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles:

Richard Blundel and Angela Tregear: From Artisans to "Factories": The Interpenetration of Craft and Industry in English Cheese-Making, 1650–1950

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 17, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 705-739; doi:10.1093/es/khl044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter Miskell: "Selling America to the World"? The Rise and Fall of an International Film Distributor in its Largest Foreign Market: United Artists in Britain, 1927–1947

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 12, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 740-776; doi:10.1093/es/khl040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Philip Ollerenshaw: Innovation and Corporate Failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945–1968

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 18, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 777-811; doi:10.1093/es/khl042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews:

Christiane Diehl Taylor: Pamela Walker Laird. Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 pp. ISBN 0-674-01907-5, $29.95 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 812-814; doi:10.1093/es/khl058 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M. Elaine Fuller: Todd A. Knoop. Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xv + 289 pp. ISBN 0-275-98162-2, $49.95.

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 814-816; doi:10.1093/es/khl056 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Christopher Newfield: Richard Sennett. The Culture of the New Capitalism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 214 pp. ISBN 0-300-10782-X, $25.00 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 816-818; doi:10.1093/es/khl060 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nicholas Alexander: AnnaLee Saxenian. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 424 pp. ISBN 0-674-02201-7, $27.95 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 819-820; doi:10.1093/es/khl049 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Pegram Harrison: Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland. Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. xi + 269 pp. ISBN 90-6718-232-X, $30.00 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 821-822; doi:10.1093/es/khl066 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ferry de Goey: Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala, eds. East-West Trade and the Cold War. Jyväskylä, Finland: Jyväskylä University Printing House, 2005. 237 pp. ISBN 951-39-2088-7, ${euro}$ 26.00 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 823-825; doi:10.1093/es/khl052 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Morris L. Bian: Kaoru Sugihara, ed. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-829271-6, $140.00.

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 825-827; doi:10.1093/es/khl050 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Aldo Musacchio: Anne G. Hanley. Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xviii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-8047-5072-6, $55.00 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 827-829; doi:10.1093/es/khl061 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andrea Colli: Renato Giannetti and Michelangelo Vasta. L’impresa italiana nel Novecento. Bologna, Italy: Societá Editrice il Mulino, 2003. 486 pp. ISBN 88-15-09496-2, ${euro}$ 30.00.

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 829-832; doi:10.1093/es/khl051 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James A. Jaffe: Harold James. Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-674-02181-9, $39.95 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 832-834; doi:10.1093/es/khl064 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James Gilbert: Victoria de Grazia. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 586 pp. ISBN 0-674-01672-6, $29.95 (cloth).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 834-836; doi:10.1093/es/khl067 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Douglas R. Egerton: Robin L. Einhorn. American Taxation, American Slavery. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0-226-19487-6, $35.00.

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 837-838; doi:10.1093/es/khl055 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Susanna Delfino: Tom Downey. Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiii + 262 pp. ISBN 0-8071-3107-5, $49.95.

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 839-840; doi:10.1093/es/khl053 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ronald Schultz: Simon Middleton. From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 320 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3915-6, $45.00 (paper)

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 841-843; doi:10.1093/es/khl059 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tom Dicke: Jerome P. Bjelopera. City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 208 pp. ISBN 0-252-02977-1, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-252-07227-8, $22.00 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 843-845; doi:10.1093/es/khl054 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael McAvoy: Timothy Messer-Kruse. Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. xii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-8142-0977-7, $44.95 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 845-847; doi:10.1093/es/khl062 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

W. Thomas White: David M. Young. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 0-87580-334-2, $39.95 (cloth).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 847-849; doi:10.1093/es/khl068 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Russell D. Jones: Mark Aldrich. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 446 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8236-2, $59.95 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 849-851; doi:10.1093/es/khl063 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Susan Hirsch: John Franch. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. vii + 374 pp. ISBN 0-252-03099-0, $45.00 (paper).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 851-853; doi:10.1093/es/khl065 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael N. Geselowitz: James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 629 pp. ISBN 0-19-516587-X, $59.50.

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 853-855; doi:10.1093/es/khl057 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Atsushi Akera: Arthur L. Norberg. Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. x + 347 pp. ISBN 0-262-14090-X, $40.00 (cloth).

Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 24, 2006 Enterprise Soc 2006 7: 855-857; doi:10.1093/es/khl048 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]