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Pamela Walker Laird
Looking Toward the Future: Expanding Connections for Business Historians
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on July 31, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 575-590; doi:10.1093/es/khn078 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dissertation Summaries Back

Christopher Beauchamp
The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business, and the Law in the United States and Britain, 1876–1900
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on September 17, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 591-601; doi:10.1093/es/khn084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephanie Decker
Building Up Goodwill: British Business, Development and Economic Nationalism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945–1977
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on October 2, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 602-613; doi:10.1093/es/khn085 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis Hyman
Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on September 17, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 614-618; doi:10.1093/es/khn083 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julia Cathleen Ott
When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy and the Emergence of the Retail Investor in the United States, 1890–1930
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on September 30, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 619-630; doi:10.1093/es/khn086 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Section on the Middle East Back

Andrew Godley and Relli Shechter
Editors’ Introduction: Business History and the Middle East: Local Contexts, Multinational Responses—A Special Section of Enterprise & Society
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on July 21, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 631-636; doi:10.1093/es/khn077 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steen Andersen
Building for the Shah: Market Entry, Political Reality and Risks on the Iranian Market, 1933–1939
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on June 21, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 637-669; doi:10.1093/es/khn046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Synthetics for the Shah: DuPont and the Challenges to Multinationals in 1970s Iran
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on July 10, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 670-723; doi:10.1093/es/khn055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yavuz Koese
Nestlé in the Ottoman Empire: Global Marketing with Local Flavor 1870–1927
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on May 25, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 724-761; doi:10.1093/es/khn045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Relli Shechter
Glocal Mediators: Marketing in Egypt during the Open-Door Era (infitah)
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on April 5, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 762-787; doi:10.1093/es/khn002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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David Steigerwald
Did the Protestant Ethic Disappear? The Virtue of Thrift on the Cusp of Postwar Affluence
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on August 25, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 788-815; doi:10.1093/es/khn082 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David G. Surdam
The New York Yankees Cope with the Great Depression
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on August 23, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 816-840; doi:10.1093/es/khn081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews Back

Mark Aldrich
Paul F. Paskoff. Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 1, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 841-843; doi:10.1093/es/khn087 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. L. Anderson
Sarah T. Phillips. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 843-845; doi:10.1093/es/khn088 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian Black
Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 845-847; doi:10.1093/es/khn089 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas A. Castillo
Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth Century America
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 847-849; doi:10.1093/es/khn090 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gillian Cookson
James Taylor. Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800–1870
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 850-851; doi:10.1093/es/khn091 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. Wyatt Evans
Stephen Mihm. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 852-854; doi:10.1093/es/khn092 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Jaffe
Gregory Clark. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 854-856; doi:10.1093/es/khn093 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne F. MacLennan
Duane C. S. Stoltzfus. Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment.
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 856-858; doi:10.1093/es/khn094 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Mason
Rebecca Edwards. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 858-860; doi:10.1093/es/khn095 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Metzler
Edward S. Miller. Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 860-862; doi:10.1093/es/khn096 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy Minchin
Robin Archer. Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 862-864; doi:10.1093/es/khn097 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ronald Schultz
Laura Croghan Kamoie. Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 1, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 864-866; doi:10.1093/es/khn098 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb
Pamela E. Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan R. Zatlin, eds. Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 1, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 866-868; doi:10.1093/es/khn099 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Singleton
A. D. Morrison-Low. Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 1, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 868-870; doi:10.1093/es/khn100 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Howard Stanger
Chaim M. Rosenberg. Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 870-872; doi:10.1093/es/khn101 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel Levinson Wilk
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. Hotel: An American History: Rachel Sherman. Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels • Wayne Koestenbaum. Hotel Theory
Enterprise and Society Advance Access published on November 8, 2008
Enterprise Soc 2008 9: 873-877; doi:10.1093/es/khn102 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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