Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Ainlay-Conley, Jacqui, “From the Silver City to Kansas City: August and Emma Meyer in Leadville and Beyond,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.
Alstott, Anne L., and Ben Novick, “War, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in the Twenties: The 1924 Veterans’ Bonus and the Defeat of the Mellon Plan,” Tax Law Review, 59 (Summer 2006), 373–438.
Davis, Joseph H., and Douglas A. Irwin, “The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (July 2008), 254–69.
Francis, Stephen S., “Back to Business: Marriner Eccles and the Effect of Public Service on Private Enterprise,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 265–80.
Gordon, Jeffrey N., “The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950–2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices,” Stanford Law Review, 59 (April 2007), 1465–568.
Harvey, Gordon E., “The Nut with a Huey Long Outlook versus the Goblins of Fear and Distortion: Reubin Askew and the Campaign to Establish the Florida Corporate Profits Tax,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Winter 2008), 309–45.
Hightower, Michael J., “The Businessman’s Frontier: C. C. Hightower, Commerce, and Old Greer Country, 1891–1903,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 4–31.
Hinton, Diana Davids, “Creating Company Culture: Oil Company Camps in the Southwest, 1920–1960,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (April 2008), 369–87.
Hoover, Michael, “Before Disney Arrived: Florida’s Ill-Fated Attempt to Build interama,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 445–69.
Kopczynski, Michal, “Samuel Colt i amerykanski sposób produkcji” (Samuel Colt and the American method of production), Mówia Wieki (Warsaw) (no. 9, 2007), 40–46. In Polish.
Lovin, Hugh T., “Lucien Nunn, Provo Entrepreneur, and His Hydropower Realm in Utah and Idaho,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Spring 2008), 132–47.
Makholm, Jeff D., “‘Decoupling’ for Energy Distributors: Changing 19th Century Tariff Structures to Address 21st Century Energy Markets,” Energy Law Journal, 29 (no. 1, 2008), 157–72.
Marler, Scott P., “‘An Abiding Faith in Cotton’: The Merchant Capitalist Community of New Orleans, 1860–1862,” Civil War History, 54 (Sept. 2008), 247–76.
Mullins, Paul R., “Marketing in a Multicultural Neighborhood: An Archaeology of Corner Stores in the Urban Midwest,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 88–96.
Richards, Susan L., and Rex C. Myers, “An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove: Thomas J. Grier’s Management of the Homestake Mine, 1885–1914,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 95–124.
Spector, Bert, “‘Business Responsibilities in a Divided World’: The Cold War Roots of the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (June 2008), 314–36.
Stranger, Howard R., “The Larkin Clubs of Ten: Consumer Buying Clubs and Mail-Order Commerce, 1890–1940,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (March 2008), 125–64.
Weaver, Glen D., and Ryan C. Graham, “Largest Coke Plant West of Chicago,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Summer 2008), 323–51.
Bohn, Sarah E., “Immigration and Wages in the U.S. Labor Market” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283414.
DiMoia, John Paul, “Hanmi Hyopcho (Korean-American Cooperation) and the Origins of South Korean State Science (1945–1975)” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3281300.
Hyman, Louis Roland, “Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285490.
Lampe, Evan, “Merchants, Traders, and Sailors in the Early American Pacific, 1763–1850” (State University of New York, Albany, 2007). Order No. DA3286296.
Mrozowski, Daniel J., “Tracing the Corporation: The Cultural Imagination of Business in American Literary Realism, 1865–1917” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287587.
O’Connor, Mike, “Democratic Capitalism in the United States” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285892.
Broehl, Wayne G., Jr., Cargill: From Commodities to Customers. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xvi, 348 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-58465-694-4.)
Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds., Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 215 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1795-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Nigra, Fabio G., Una historia económica (inconformista) de los Estados Unidos, 1865–1980 (Economic (nonconformist) history of the United States of America, 1865–1980). (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007. 262 pp. $35.00.) In Spanish.
Prentiss, Craig R., Debating God’s Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii, 267 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-271-03341-9.)
Westbrook, Jack H., Material Memories of the Mohawk-Hudson Region. (Fleischmanns: Purple Mountain Press, 2007. 205 pp. Paper, $15.00, isbn 978-1-930098-86-2.)
Racine, Philip N., Gentlemen Merchants: A Charleston Family’s Odyssey, 1828–1870. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxxvi, 890 pp. $38.95, isbn 978-1-57233-616-2.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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