Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Baptist, Edward E., “Toxic Debt, Liar Loans, and Securitized Human Beings: The Panic of 1837 and the Fate of Slavery,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/baptist/.
Barbash, Barry P., and Jai Massari, “The Investment Advisers Act of 1940: Regulation by Accretion,” Rutgers Law Journal, 39 (Spring 2008), 627–56.
Bennett, Dana R., “‘The Up-Growth of New Industries’: Transformation of Nevada’s Economy, 1918–1929,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Fall 2009), 175–97.
Bloom, Matthew, “Symbiotic Growth in the Swamp: Toledo and Northwest Ohio, 1860–1900,” Northwest Ohio History, 77 (Spring 2010), 85–104.
Bonner, Michael Brem, “Expedient Corporatism and Confederate Political Economy,” Civil War History, 56 (March 2010), 33–65.
Bubb, Daniel, “Transforming the Desert: Commerical Aviation as Agent of Change, Las Vegas, 1926–1945,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Fall 2009), 198–212.
Bycroft, Michael, “The Trials of Theory: Psychology and Institutional Economics, 1910–1931,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Spring 2010), 144–64.
Callahan, Richard J. Jr., Kathryn Lofton, and Chad E. Seales, “Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 78 (March 2010), 1–39.
Carnevali, Francesca, “Just a Dining Club? Community and Competition in Providence’s Jewelry Trade, circa 1860–1910,” Rhode Island History, 68 (Winter–Spring 2010), 3–19. Heavily illustrated.
Clune, Erin Elizabeth, “From Light Copper to the Blackest and Lowest Type: Daniel Tompkins and the Racial Order of the Global New South,” Journal of Southern History, 76 (May 2010), 275–314.
Cothran, Boyd, “Working the Indian Field Days: The Economy of Authenticity and the Question of Agency in Yosemite Valley,” American Indian Quarterly, 34 (Spring 2010), 194–223.
Eloranta, Jari, and Mark Wilson, “Thwarting the ‘Merchants of Death’ Accusation: The Political Economy of Military Procurement in Industrial Democracies during the Interwar Period,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 91–106.
Eyal-Cohen, Mirit, “When American Small Business Hit the Jackpot: Taxes, Politics, and the History of Organizational Choice in the 1950s,” Pittsburgh Tax Review, 6 (Fall 2008), 1–59.
Frankel, Oz, “Hard Facts for Hard Times: Social Knowledge and Social Crisis in the Nineteenth Century,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/frankel/.
Gardner, Richard N., “The Bretton-gatt System after Sixty-five: A Balance Sheet of Success and Failure,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 47 (no. 1, 2008), 31–71.
Gatch, Loren, “Oklahoma Bank Behavior and the Panic of 1907,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 5–25.
Gervais, Pierre, “A Game of Claims and Expectations: Credit, Failure, and Personal Relationships across the Atlantic,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/gervais/.
Grubb, Farley, “Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748–1811,” Journal of Economic History, 70 (March 2010), 118–45.
Guise-Richardson, Cai, “Redefining Vulcanization: Charles Goodyear, Patents, and Industrial Control, 1834–1865,” Technology and Culture, 51 (April 2010), 357–87.
Hartley, Robert E., “The Chicago Company: A Pikes Peak Gold Rush Success Story,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Autumn 2009), 213–30.
Hasnas, John, “The Centenary of a Mistake: One Hundred Years of Corporate Criminal Liability,” American Criminal Law Review, 46 (Fall 2009), 1329–58.
Hightower, Michael J., “Willard Johnston, Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881–1904,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Winter 2009–2010), 408–31.
Irwin, Douglas A., “Antebellum Tariff Politics: Regional Coalitions and Shifting Economic Interests,” Journal of Law & Economics, 51 (Nov. 2008), 715–42.
Jackson, Harvey H., III, “The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: The Northern Rim of the Gulf Coast since World War II,” Southern Cultures, 16 (Spring 2010), 7–30.
Kahan, Daniel R., “Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts: A Historical Perspective,” Georgetown Law Journal, 97 (April 2009), 1085–110.
Lepler, Jessica, “Pictures of Panic: Constructing Hard Times in Words and Images,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/lepler/. Heavily illustrated.
Madureiraa, Nuno Luís, “Oil in the Age of Steam,” Journal of Global History, 5 (March 2010), 75–94.
Mal’kov, V. L., “Nevyuchennyi urok: ‘Velikaia depressiia’ v proshlom i nastoiashchem” (Lessons which were not learned: The Great Depression, yesterday and today), in Mirovoi ekonomicheskii krizis kontsa 1920-kh–nachala 1930-kh gg.: Istoriia i sovremennost’, Materialy kruglogo stola 20 aprelia 2009 g. (The world economic crisis of the late 1920s to the early 1930s: History and modernity; The materials of the round table held on April 20, 2009), 31–50. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 142 pp. isbn 978-5-94067-278-4.) In Russian.
Martz, Emily, “‘Relationships, Relationships, Relationships’: The Mutual Fund Industry’s Mantra for Success from the 1940s through the 1960s,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 57–71.
Mehrotra, Ajay K., “Lawyers, Guns, and Public Moneys: The U.S. Treasury, World War I, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State,” Law & History Review, 28 (Feb. 2010), 173–225.
Mehrotra, Ajay K., “‘Render unto Caesar . . . ’: Religion/Ethics, Expertise, and the Historical Underpinnings of the Modern American Tax System,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 40 (Winter 2009), 321–67.
Miller, James S., “Zoning the Past: Brokers, Babbitts, and the Memory Work of Commercial Real Estate,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (May 2010), 287–311.
Millikan, William, “The Great Treasure of the Fort Snelling Prison Camp,” Minnesota History, 62 (Spring 2010), 4–17. Heavily illustrated.
Mitchell, Cynthia, “Checking Financial Power: Newspaper Coverage of the New York Stock Exchange’s Bid to Control the Ticker, June 1889,” American Journalism, 27 (Winter 2010), 37–65.
Neumann, Todd C., Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor, “The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market during the New Deal,” Journal of Economic History, 70 (March 2010), 195–220.
Newton, Lucy, “The Birth of Joint-Stock Banking: England and New England Compared,” Business History Review, 84 (Spring 2010), 27–52.
Niedringhaus, Lee I., “The N Bar N Ranch: A Legend of the Open-Range Cattle Industry, 1885–99,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 60 (Spring 2010), 3–23. Heavily illustrated.
Nier, Charles Lewis, III, “The Shadow of Credit: The Historical Origins of Racial Predatory Lending and Its Impact upon African American Wealth Accumulation,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 11 (no. 2, 2007–2008), 131–94.
Olken, Samuel R., “Justice Sutherland Reconsidered,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (March 2009), 639–93.
Powell, Karen E., “A Historical Perspective on Montana Property Tax: 25 Years of Statewide Appraisal and Appeal Practice,” Montana Law Review, 70 (Winter 2009), 21–55.
Rast, Joel, “Critical Junctures, Long-Term Processes: Urban Redevelopment in Chicago and Milwaukee, 1945–1980,” Social Science History, 33 (Winter 2009), 393–426.
Raysor, Craig P., “From the Sword to the Pen: A History and Current Analysis of U.S. Tobacco Marketing Regulations,” Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, 13 (Fall 2008), 497–543.
Rice, Michael A., “A Brief History of the American Fish Culture Company: Rhode Island’s Pioneering Trout Aquaculture Farm, 1877–1977,” Rhode Island History, 68 (Winter–Spring 2010), 21–35.
Rogers, C. Paul, III, “The Antitrust Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas,” Cleveland State Law Review, 56 (no. 4, 2008), 895–1001.
Sakamoto, Arthur, “Is Rising Earnings Inequality Associated with Increased Exploitation? Evidence for U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1971–1996,” Sociological Perspectives, 53 (Spring 2010), 19–44.
Santo, Avi, “Batman versus The Green Hornet: The Merchandisable tv Text and the Paradox of Licensing in the Classical Network Era,” Cinema Journal, 49 (Winter 2010), 63–85.
Shpotov, B. M., “1930-e gody: ‘Velikaia depressiia’ v SShA i ekonomicheskie trudnosti v sssr” (The 1930s: The American Great Depression and economic difficulties in the ussr), in Mirovoi ekonomicheskii krizis kontsa 1920-kh–nachala 1930-kh gg.: Istoriia i sovremennost’, Materialy kruglogo stola 20 aprelia 2009 g. (The world economic crisis of the late 1920s to the early 1930s: History and modernity; The materials of the round table held on April 20, 2009), 65–73. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 142 pp. isbn 978-5-94067-278-4.) In Russian.
Sogrin, V. V., “Economicheskii krizis 1929–1933 gg. v SShA i ego preodolenie” (The economic crisis of 1929–1933 in the United States and how it was overcome), in Mirovoi ekonomicheskii krizis kontsa 1920-kh–nachala 1930-kh gg.: Istoriia i sovremennost’, Materialy kruglogo stola 20 aprelia 2009 g. (The world economic crisis of the late 1920s to the early 1930s: History and modernity; The materials of the round table held on April 20, 2009), 7–30. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 142 pp. isbn 978-5-94067-278-4.) In Russian.
Stapleford, Thomas A., “Shaping Knowledge about American Labor: External Advising at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Twentieth Century,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 23 (June 2010), 151–86.
Taylor, John, and Josh Silver, “The Community Reinvestment Act at 30: Looking Back and Looking to the Future,” New York Law School Law Review, 53 (no. 2, 2008–2009), 203–25.
Thomson, Ross, “The Continuity of Innovation: The Civil War Experience,” Enterprise & Society, 11 (March 2010), 128–65.
Van Horn, Patrick, “The Small, Private Banker in New York and Regulatory Change, 1893–1933,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 107–21.
Wilson, Mark R., “‘Taking a Nickel out of the Cash Register’: Statutory Renegotiation of Military Contracts and the Politics of Profit Control in the United States during World War II,” Law & History Review, 28 (May 2010), 343–83.
Wright, Robert E., “Corporations and the Economic Growth and Development of the Antebellum Ohio River Valley,” Ohio Valley History, 9 (Winter 2009), 48–70. Heavily illustrated.
Chester, Robert Neil, “Comstock Creations: An Environmental History of an Industrial Watershed” (University of California, Davis, 2009). Order No. DA3362476.
Ciafone, Amanda Marie, “Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of Challenges to the Global Corporation” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3361892.
Graydon, Benjamin T., “Marketing Fictions: Product Branding in American Literature and Culture, 1890–1915” (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Order No. DA3365648.
Hudson, Peter James, “Dark Finance: An Unofficial History of Wall Street, American Empire, and the Caribbean, 1889–1929” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3361257.
Manuel, Jeffrey Thomas, “Developing Resources: Industry, Policy, and Memory on the Post-industrial Iron Range” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3366899.
Mazak-Kahne, Jeanine, “Birthplace of Aluminum, Cradle of Crime: Spheres of Influence in the Deindustrialization of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1930–1970” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3364720.
Outwin, Charles P. M., “Thriving and Elegant, Flourishing, and Populous: Falmouth in Casco Bay, 1760–1775” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364693.
Richardson, Robert L., Jr., “Neoconservatism: Origins and Evolution, 1945–1980” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3366412.
Sheppard, Rebecca Jean, “Making the Farm Pay: Persistence and Adaptation in the Evolution of Delaware’s Agricultural Landscape, 1780–2005” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360281.
Simon, Malka, “The Space of Production: Brooklyn and the Creation of an Urban Industrial Landscape” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3365749.
Waterhouse, Benjamin Cooper, “A Lobby for Capital: Organized Business and the Pursuit of Promarket Politics, 1967–1986” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365480.
Brown, Earl E., Commerce on Early American Waterways: The Transport of Goods by Arks, Rafts, and Log Drives. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. vi, 234 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4742-8.)
Burrough, Bryan, The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. (New York: Penguin, 2009. xiv, 466 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-1-59420-199-8. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311682-0.)
Dür, Andreas, Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xviii, 246 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4823-2.)
Fried, Stephen, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. (New York: Bantam, 2010. xx, 518 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-553-80437-9.)
Hoagland, Alison K., Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxvi, 307 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-6566-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-6567-9.)
Mirovoi ekonomicheskii krizis kontsa 1920-kh–nachala 1930-kh gg.: Istoriia i sovremennost’, Materialy kruglogo stola 20 aprelia 2009 g. (The world economic crisis of the late 1920s to the early 1930s: History and modernity; The materials of the round table held on April 20, 2009). (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 142 pp. isbn 978-5-94067-278-4.) In Russian. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Sleeper-Smith, Susan, ed., Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. lxiv, 638 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-8032-4329-3.)
Stein, Judith, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi, 367 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-300-11818-6.)
Vitiello, Domenic, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. xvi, 253 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4224-9.)
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