Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Barnet, William C., “Inventing the Conch Republic: The Creation of Key West as an Escape from Modern America,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Fall 2009), 139–72.
Berlin, Leslie, “Robert Noyce, Silicon Valley, and the Teamwork behind the High-Technology Revolution,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 33–36.
Blackford, Mansel, “American Manufacturing, 1850–1930: A Business History Approach,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 17–22.
Boyd, Robert L., “Depletion of the South’s Human Capital: The Case of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs,” Southeastern Geographer, 49 (Fall 2009), 251–66.
Calomiris, Charles, and Jonathan Pritchett, “Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders’ Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Dec. 2009), 986–1011.
Cohen, Joanna, “‘The Right to Purchase Is as Free as the Right to Sell’: Defining Consumers as Citizens in the Auction-House Conflicts of the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Spring 2010), 25–62.
Davis, John Martin, Jr., “Coosaw Rock Alchemy: A Short History of River-Phosphate Mining in Beaufort County,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (Oct. 2008), 269–94.
Goldberg, Dror, “The Massachusetts Paper Money of 1690,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Dec. 2009), 1092–1106.
Harris, Richard, “The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905–1929,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (Dec. 2009), 687–728.
Hovenkamp, Herbert, “United States Competition Policy in Crisis: 1890–1955,” Minnesota Law Review, 92 (Dec. 2009), 311–67.
Petrik, Paula, “Parading as Millionaires: Montana Bankers and the Panic of 1893,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (Dec. 2009), 729–62.
Scranton, Philip, “Classic Issues and Fresh Themes in Business History,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 11–15.
Spar, Debora, and Krysztof Bebenek, “To the Tap: Public versus Private Water Provision at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Business History Review, 83 (Winter 2009), 675–702.
Stamm, Michael, “Newspapers, Radio, and the Business of Media in the United States,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 25–28.
Sylvester, Kenneth M., “Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Dec. 2009), 1041–62.
Veeser, Cyrus, “Concessions as a Modernizing Strategy in the Dominican Republic,” Business History Review, 83 (Winter 2009), 731–58.
Wells, Harwell, “‘No Man Can Be Worth $1,000,000 a Year’: The Fight over Executive Compensation in 1930s America,” University of Richmond Law Review, 44 (Jan. 2010), 689–769.
Wells, Harwell, “The Modernization of Corporation Law, 1920–1940,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 11 (Spring 2009), 573–629.
Whitfield, Stephen J., “Commerce and Community: A Business History of Jacksonville Jewry,” Southern Jewish History, 12 (2009), 115–226.
Yacob, Shakila, “Ford’s Investment in Colonial Malaya, 1926–1957,” Business History Review, 83 (Winter 2009), 789–812.
Bloom, Matthew D., “Creating Connections: Economic Development, Land Use, and the System of Cities in Northwest Ohio during the Nineteenth century” (Bowling Green State University, 2009). Order No. DA3351098.
Burnett, Paul, “The Visible Land: Agricultural Economies, U.S. Export Agriculture, and International Development, 1918–1965” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3345912.
Hanes, Samuel Paris, “The High Modernist Moment: Oysters, Knowledge Production, and Conservation in the Progressive Era, 1878–1917” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349886.
Harrison, Candice L., “The Contest of Exchange: Space, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770–1859” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3344471.
Highsmith, Andrew R., “Demolition Means Progress: Race, Class, and the Deconstruction of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan” (University of Michigan, 2009). Order No. DA3354168.
Holt, Daniel Stephen, “Acceptable Risk: Law, Regulation, and the Politics of American Financial Markets, 1878–1930” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3353838.
Huang, Yan, “Racial Differences in Households’ Financial Asset Allocation, 1992–2004” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3349027.
Jividen, Jill M., “Power of Attorney: Business and Friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Maurice J. Speiser” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3351691.
Massengill, Rebekah Peeples, “Critical Capitalism: Moral Discourse in the Debate over Wal-Mart” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3350829.
Meiners, Jeremy Richard, “The Formation of the Human Capital Century: Essays on Educational Development in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” (Washington University in St. Louis, 2008). Order No. DA3349342.
Morii, Yumiko, “A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Finance in the United States and Japan from 1880 to 1930” (Florida International University, 2008). Order No. DA3346731.
Shin, Taekjin, “Working in Corporate America: Dynamics of Pay at Large Corporations, 1992–2005” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353219.
Spellman, Susan V., “Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business, 1860–1940” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2009). Order No. DA3353011.
Statham, Sabra Isadore, “Contemporary Music and the Publishing Industry in America from 1938 to 1965 as Represented in Letters and Documents of the Displaced Universal Edition Composers and Their Publishing Agents” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354718.
Tiagi, Raaj, “Economic Opportunity in the Early Twentieth Century: A Study of Migrants” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3347831.
Velut, Jean-Baptiste, “‘Free’ or ‘Fair’ Trade? The Battle for the Rules of American Trade Policy from NAFTA to CAFTA (1991–2005)” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3344774.
Yin, Ming, “Costs and Benefits of State Growth Management Programs: Evaluating their Impacts on Spraw and Housing Markets in the U.S., 1990–2000” (University of Louisville, 2008). Order No. DA3352033.
Appleby, Joyce, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. (New York: Norton, 2010. xii, 494 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-393-06894-8.)
Carew, Michael G., Becoming the Arsenal: The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938–1942. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2010. x, 316 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4668-0. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4669-7.)
Caulfield, Norman, nafta and Labor in North America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xii, 246 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03492-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07670-1.)
Cooper, Phillip J., The War against Regulation: From Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 288 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1681-7.)
Fischel, William A., Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 298 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-226-25130-1.)
Hunt, James L., Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xxviiii, 386 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-86554-915-9.)
Lewis, Robert F., II, Smart Ball: Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. xii, 165 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-207-8.)
Walker, Juliet E. K., The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship,vol. 1: To 1865. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xxvi, 405 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3241-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5910-0.)
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