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Introduction

Scranton, P. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

United States Bank Rescue Politics, 2008-2009: A Business Historian's View

Rose, M. H. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

First I describe my background in American historical scholarship. Thereafter, I assess the efforts of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama and their senior advisors to stabilize American financial institutions during the period 2008–2009. My fundamental contention is that state actors such as Bush and Obama structured financial industries and markets. Despite the ubiquitous presence of these state actors, however, American business and political leaders maintained the fiction that state and business were, and properly ought to remain, separate entities. In Part III, I return to my scholarly background and to a proposed scaffolding for historical scholarship focused on the political economy of U.S. financial institutions since 1970.

Your Job Is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885-1920

Easterly, M. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

"Industrial Legislatures": Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions

Russell, A. L. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

My dissertation is a study of standardization in four communications networks: AT&T's monopoly telephone network, the Internet, digital cellular telephone networks, and the World Wide Web. A history of these networks that highlights standardization shows how engineers in industry committees replaced managers in monopoly hierarchies as the stewards of standards for communication networks. By the end of the twentieth century, the new networks—and the new institutions devised to sustain the standardization process—formed the technological and ideological infrastructure of the Third Industrial Revolution.

Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945-1980

Tobbell, D. A. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905-1929

Harris, R. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

The idea, and to a lesser extent the reality, of the modern home improvement store was born in the first quarter of the twentieth century. After 1905 the manufacturers of mail-order kit houses soon grew to threaten the local monopoly of retail building suppliers. The most important of these suppliers were the lumber merchants who provided most of the materials and credit used by building contractors. At first dealers responded by mounting boycotts and by supporting trade-at-home campaigns, but these were successfully challenged in court. A survey of trade journals shows that after 1914 dealers began to act more constructively. Encouraged by the trade press, and helped by state and national associations, by the 1920s they were advertising more effectively and offering a widening range of goods and services to consumers, including house plans. Because many new customers were women, dealers had to hire more courteous staff, clean up their yards, mount better displays, build showrooms and, in time, relocate to more salubrious and heavily-trafficked parts of town. The emergence of the home improvement store is a significant chapter in the history of urban housing, and especially the marketing of housing services, in the twentieth century.

Parading as Millionaires: Montana Bankers and the Panic of 1893

Petrik, P. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

The Ups and Downs of Family Life: Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap, 1912-1976

Storli, E., Bregaint, D. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

The current literature on international joint ventures pays considerable attention to why joint ventures are established or why they are dissolved, but we lack studies that give insight into their dynamic development. The aim of this article is to investigate the evolution of an international joint venture over time. We confront some of the theoretical insights developed during the last decades with the dramatic history of the aluminum producer Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap (DNN). The company was established shortly before World War I and was finally disbanded over seventy years later. For most of this time, DNN was an international joint venture with shifting ownership configurations. This gives us the possibility not only to discuss the motivation for why the company was established or why it was dissolved, but also to study the mid-life of the company. What was DNN's role within the general corporate strategies of the owners? Did this role change over time?

History, a Useful "Science" for Management? From Polemics to Controversies

Godelier, E. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

The aim of this essay is to analyze the way management sciences and practices use history or at least the kind of research which they define as history. This reflection will lead to discussing the possibility and the opportunity that an historical approach might have in creating management knowledge, especially "workable" know-how. A quick look at present-day exchanges between the two communities could lead us to the conclusion that there were tensions in the past that have not entirely evaporated. Might they explain the relative modesty of the dialogue, at least in France?

The Use and Abuse of History as a Management Tool: Comments on Eric Godelier's View of the French Connection

Kobrak, C. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

This short essay elaborates on two points raised by Eric Godelier's article about resolving divisions between management science and business history in France. It outlines the segmentation of French higher education, especially in the area of business studies, and discusses some long-standing debates over legitimizing historical studies.

Does History Matter in Business?

Tiffany, P. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

In 2008 Professor Eric Godelier published a provocative essay in which he concluded that a positive dialogue between business historians and both management scientists and business management practitioners was possible. While the divide between these camps was not trivial, he nevertheless wrote that current events and scholarship was bringing them together, at least as he could observe these trends in the context of emerging French scholarship. In this current review, my own conclusion is the opposite. Management scholarship, in fact, continues to move away from the "soft" approach of the historian and more towards the "rigorous" and quantitatively biased methodology of the management sciences. My essay reviews the background of this development in terms of American business practice and scholarship, as it seeks to demonstrate how the evolution of management training in the United States brought us to the current state of affairs where "hard" drives out soft in almost every encounter. However, while I conclude that this is indeed the current reality, I do not imply any endorsement of this outcome. Rather, I end with a hope that some forms of rapprochement might be possible–yet with an acknowledgement that we will have no definitive answers to this question anytime soon.

History, a Useful "Science" for Management? A Response

Popp, A. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

In response to Eric Godelier's call for a partnership between business history and the management sciences I argue for a vision of business history as history. Whilst acknowledging the institutional and intellectual pressures to which the discipline is subject I argue such a turn is important for the continued health of the field. Such a turn will, however, also require engaging with fundamental questions of epsitemology.

Comments on Comments, or the Richness of Dialogue

Godelier, E. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Dan Immergluck. Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market

Quigley, J. M. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation

Wright, G. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Adam C. Stanley. Modernizing Tradition. Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany

Poulliard, V. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Gabrielle Esperdy. Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal

Stanger, H. R. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Susan Ingalls Lewis. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885

Baskerville, P. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Sarah A. Gordon. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930

Boris, E. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray, eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

Wood, M. E. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism

Bailey, A. R. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Tonio Andrade. How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century

Chang, W. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Stanley Buder. Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business

Wadhwani, R. D. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

James T. Wall. Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion and Politics in the Gilded Age

Buder, S. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

Alvin Rabushka. Taxation in Colonial America

Ashworth, W. J. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:28 PST

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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

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"Making Connections": Insights into Relationship Marketing from the Australasian Stock and Station Agent Industry

Ville, S. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Relationship marketing has received little attention from business historians who have favored the study of branding, associational advertising, market research, and the role of marketing agencies, particularly in relation to modern consumer manufacturing. Although the term relationship marketing is of recent origin, we analyze its practice under a different guise, "connections," over several centuries: we draw on the extensive archival evidence of a rural business services industry in Australia and New Zealand. Relationship marketing's emphasis upon close and enduring individual customer relationships mitigated uncertainty of performance and behaviour, on both sides of the transaction, created by a long and geographically extended supply chain. The success of these relationships contributed to the primary industry–led economic development of both nations.

Divergent Paths, United States and France: Capital Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840-1940

Cohen, J. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Why do the United States and France, both capitalist economies that were dominated by private railways in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries, have very different transport systems today? After World War II France developed 200 mph high speed trains, while railways in the United States declined to near irrelevance. This paper argues that cross-national divergence was caused by private and public actions that structured capital markets and controlled planning. In the United States private financial institutions used capital markets to shape rail development. In France, by way of contrast, the state directly intervened in financial markets and controlled planning. Both systems thrived until World War I. But, then, faced with growing competition from cars, buses and trucks and burdened by excessive debt, they declined towards bankruptcy. The Great Depression became a defining moment as a Socialist-dominated government in France nationalized railways while in the United States, President Roosevelt's New Deal failed to enact policies to ensure the competitive viability of rail in relation to motorized transport. Rarely used archival sources provide much of the evidence for this argument.

The Workplace and Economic Crisis: Canadian Textile Firms, 1929-1935

Lewis, R. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

The devastating conditions of the Great Depression forced manufacturers to rethink their approach to workplace control, economic policy, and production practices. Although we know a great deal about how industries responded to the depression, we know very little about the changes implemented by firms. This is unfortunate as firms in the same industry face quite different problems, possess dissimilar work cultures, construct an array of production formats, and have access to a range of financial resources. Based on a literature that documents the variety of strategies devised by industries and firms, this paper shows how four Canadian textile firms—two cotton and two hosiery and knitting—reacted to the economic crisis of the Great Depression. In the face of a different array of conditions, each firm devised different restructuring strategies. The large cotton corporations responded by combining mechanization, product line change, and a new division of labor. The smaller, more competitive hosiery and knitting firms, on the other hand, imposed either a harsh regime of scientific management or conservative, piecemeal changes. In the midst of restructuring the workplace, manufacturers reasserted their prerogatives of managerial authority, selectively took advantage of the opportunities opened up by economic crisis, and created a new regime of industrial-state regulations.

The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain

Alexander, A., Nell, D., Bailey, A. R., Shaw, G. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

In this paper we examine shoppers' reactions to the development of early supermarket retailing in post-war Britain. Positioning our discussion in relation to multi-disciplinary contributions on the role of consumers in innovation, we argue that more attention needs to be given to the shopper's input in the debate on retail innovation, including the supermarket. New oral history data drawn from a nationwide survey is presented in support of our arguments. Shoppers' contributions to the supermarket innovation are shown to be multi-faceted in nature, incorporating processes of co-production and value creation; processes that were altered in the transition from counter-service to self-service retail environments. Shoppers' discussions of such alterations were frequently structured around four aspects of interaction; with the physical environment of the store, with the goods for sale, with other shoppers and with shop staff. Whilst increasingly part of ‘ordinary consumption’ routines, the data highlights that in the switch to the supermarket, shopping became a more reflective activity and one that resulted in a variety of experiences and emotions.

The Realpolitik of the Artificial: Strategic Design at Figgjo Fajanse Facing International Free Trade in the 1960s

Fallan, K. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

The 1960 establishment of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) represented a watershed to Norwegian consumer goods industry. Since the end of World War II domestic manufacturers had been thriving on a small but lucrative home market characterized by an unparalleled demand, effectively protected from foreign competition by strict import regulations and tariffs barriers. The onset of international free trade would dramatically change this market situation, allowing cheap foreign products access to the Norwegian market while at the same time offering export opportunities to an industry traditionally geared to the domestic market. Operating in an industry where appearance is anything but superficial, the crockery manufacturer Figgjo Fajanse realized that product design would be a crucial tool in the reorganization of its operations when adapting to this ‘brave, new world’ of international free trade. Devising a flexible basis for a rational product differentiation, Figgjo made severe cuts in an oversized product portfolio and developed a small range of new models that could accommodate a wide range of decorative patterns of highly different styles. This strategy required elaborate and creative negotiations on the part of the company’s designers, creating a ‘third way’—a moderate modern design carved out in the space demarcated by the industrially rational, the commercially viable, and the aesthetically ethical.

Terry Gourvish. Britain's Railways 1997-2005: Labour's Strategic Experiment

Levinson, M. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. American Consumer Society, 1865-2005: From Hearth to HDTV

Pope, D. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Raymond E. Dumett, ed. Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945. Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion

Butler, L. J. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Aims McGuinness. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush

Safford, F. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Laura Ugolini. Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939

Stanley, A. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

John Iceland. Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States

Barrett, J. R. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Richard H. Gassan. The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1830

Stradling, D. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

Joao Pedro Marques. 2006. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Read, I. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:40:23 PDT

How Reciprocal was the Business-Government Relationship? The Wedge of Competition in Early Industrializing Japan

von Staden, P. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

The literature on early industrializing Japan characterizes the business–government relationship in antithetical terms of "cooperation" or "independence." The first position advances that interaction between these actors is largely covert and mutually beneficial and the second characterizes business as ever chary of government interference. These positions have been brought under the framework of "Reciprocal Consent" where government accords business control of industry while retaining its jurisdictional remit. It is argued that this arrangement observed in Japan's energy industry emerged because government was not a financial stakeholder. By contrast, in the iron and steel industry under study here, government was the primary stakeholder. The Shingikai or Councils of Deliberation records show that in the early development of this industry, economics played a central role in shaping the business–government relationship and setting the limits of "reciprocity".

Pensions and Providence: Dutch Employers and the Creation of Funded Pension Schemes

Nijhof, E. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

From an international perspective, the Dutch system of old age provisions stands out for its wide coverage, fixed benefits, and an overall actuarial soundness that seem to make this system more shock proof to demographic shifts and economic adversities than those in other "Western" countries. Its actual foundation is a compulsory old age insurance for all citizens, enforced by law and implemented by the state; this insurance is supplemented by fully funded pension schemes for workers and employees, operating under legal control; and finally there is a variety of additional and noncompulsory pension benefits and individual insurance arrangements. The main impetus to the genesis of this system came from employers who, with different agendas, created various pension funds; eventually it was the state, which set a decisive example with a funded pension fund for its civil servants. This became the standard to all corporate pension schemes and provoked innovations like branch funds. These initiatives were supported and regulated by legislation that made these arrangements compulsory and guaranteed their juridical independence and actuarial soundness. Only after this legally promoted maturation of private funds, the state set out to create public arrangements on a "pay-as-you-go" basis for all citizens. This delicate interplay between private and public pension arrangements is highly characteristic of the Dutch variety of capitalism in a broader context. In the polarity between liberal and coordinated market economies, as developed by Soskice and Hall, the Dutch system of old age provisions has played a prominent role in ranking this country more firmly into the latter category. However, within this range of countries the Dutch system of old age provisions is also a bit atypical: private corporate and branch arrangements were encouraged and at the same time embedded in a legal framework. The role of the state was also remarkable: a supervisor of the private funds, a collector and distributor in a universal insurance system, and an employer with an exemplary pension scheme.

Looking for "Industrial Confraternity" Small-Scale Industries and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Lemercier, C. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

This research focuses on luxury and fashion industries, especially artificial flower making. This sector of small businesses was often described as totally unregulated but efficient. A very successful union (in terms of membership), nevertheless, was created in 1858. I investigate the motives of its founders and the reality of its economic influence. It acted as a service firm, allowing small businesses to lower transaction costs, and as a conciliation board. However, to understand its creation, success, and limits, other factors must be taken into account, such as political opportunities and the founders’ organizational repertoire.

Between Agnelli and Mussolini: Ford's Unsuccessful Attempt to Penetrate the Italian Automobile Market in the Interwar Period

Toninelli, P. A. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

This article discusses a chapter of the interwar history of the Ford Motor Company in Europe rather neglected by historians, namely its unsuccessful attempt to erect a solid base of operations in Italy. Expansion onto the Italian market had been part of the post-WWI Ford's strategy of internationalization. It seemed to go well beyond the exploitation of an additional demand as its most interesting and promising aspect was the utilization of the Italian branch as a bridgehead into the Balkans, the East Mediterranean region, the Middle East, and North-East Africa. At the beginning this strategy turned out successful. But when in the late 1920s the Company tried to strenghten its position in the country—either setting up its own assembly plant or establishing a joint venture with an Italian firm—its attempt was blocked. To date scholars have focused exclusively on the political and economic barriers to entry erected by the fascist regime, urged by the powerful Fiat lobby. This was certainly the main cause. Yet, this study shows that on several occasions Ford hesitated and even hung back from acting. Therefor a few chances were missed: the most glamorous being an agreement with Fiat itself, so far ignored by historiography.

Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin

Morser, E. J. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

Historians of the nineteenth-century American Middle West typically pay scant attention to the financial and regulatory role that smaller cities played in forging a regional railroad network. This article, however, explores railroading in La Crosse, Wisconsin, to demonstrate that politicians and boosters in such cities often took advantage of municipal power to shape the course of railroads in unexpected ways. In 1853, 1864, and 1876, for example, local boosters convinced city aldermen to fund railways and help forge commercial links to Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, and other markets in the East and West. The city's influence over railroading did not start and stop with public investment. Beginning in 1883, after state lawmakers had amended the city's charter and given municipal officials new police powers, aldermen forced railroad executives to clear city streets, prevent damage to private property, and guarantee the personal safety of local residents. Moreover, even when La Crossers lost a fight with railroads, as they did when they waged a holy war over the location of a Mississippi River bridge in the 1860s and 1870s, they forced railroad men to pay attention to their concerns. In the end, the case of La Crosse suggests that historians need to pay much greater mind to people and governments in small, hinterland cities before they can fully grasp the rich history of railroading, and of capitalism more generally, in the nineteenth-century Middle West.

Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916

Pearson, C. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

Kristin L. Hoganson. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

Sheumaker, H. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

Andrew M. Schocket. Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

Gajewski, P. K. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

Edward J. Renehan, Jr. Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Salmon, M. S. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

Deirdre N. McCloskey. The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Lasch-Quinn, E. — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:32 PDT

Enterprise and Society - recent issues

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Contents

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Business History Conference Society

Introduction

United States Bank Rescue Politics, 2008-2009: A Business Historian's View

Your Job Is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885-1920

"Industrial Legislatures": Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions

Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945-1980

The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905-1929

Parading as Millionaires: Montana Bankers and the Panic of 1893

The Ups and Downs of Family Life: Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap, 1912-1976

History, a Useful "Science" for Management? From Polemics to Controversies

The Use and Abuse of History as a Management Tool: Comments on Eric Godelier's View of the French Connection

Does History Matter in Business?

History, a Useful "Science" for Management? A Response

Comments on Comments, or the Richness of Dialogue

Dan Immergluck. Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market

John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation

Adam C. Stanley. Modernizing Tradition. Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany

Gabrielle Esperdy. Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal

Susan Ingalls Lewis. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885

Sarah A. Gordon. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930

Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray, eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism

Tonio Andrade. How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century

Stanley Buder. Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business

James T. Wall. Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion and Politics in the Gilded Age

Alvin Rabushka. Taxation in Colonial America

Editorial Board

Contents

Subscriptions

Business History Conference Society

"Making Connections": Insights into Relationship Marketing from the Australasian Stock and Station Agent Industry

Divergent Paths, United States and France: Capital Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840-1940

The Workplace and Economic Crisis: Canadian Textile Firms, 1929-1935

The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain

The Realpolitik of the Artificial: Strategic Design at Figgjo Fajanse Facing International Free Trade in the 1960s

Terry Gourvish. Britain's Railways 1997-2005: Labour's Strategic Experiment

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. American Consumer Society, 1865-2005: From Hearth to HDTV

Raymond E. Dumett, ed. Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945. Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion

Aims McGuinness. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush

Laura Ugolini. Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939

John Iceland. Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States

Richard H. Gassan. The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1830

Joao Pedro Marques. 2006. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

How Reciprocal was the Business-Government Relationship? The Wedge of Competition in Early Industrializing Japan

Pensions and Providence: Dutch Employers and the Creation of Funded Pension Schemes

Looking for "Industrial Confraternity" Small-Scale Industries and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Between Agnelli and Mussolini: Ford's Unsuccessful Attempt to Penetrate the Italian Automobile Market in the Interwar Period

Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin

Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916

Kristin L. Hoganson. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

Andrew M. Schocket. Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

Edward J. Renehan, Jr. Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Deirdre N. McCloskey. The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce