Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Elstein, Rochelle Berger, “Adler & Sullivan: The End of the Partnership and Its Aftermath,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 98 (Spring–Summer 2005), 51–81.
Fear, Jeffrey, and Christopher Kobrak, “Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 1–49.
Godley, Andrew, “Selling the Sewing Machine around the World: Singer’s International Marketing Strategies, 1850–1920,” Enterprise & Society, 7 (June 2006), 266–314.
Hall, Elizabeth Armstrong, “If Looms Could Speak: The Story of Pennsylvania’s Silk Industry,” Pennsylvania Heritage, 32 (Summer 2006), 26–35.
Jacks, David S., “What Drove 19th Century Commodity Market Integration?,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (July 2006), 383–412.
Jessup, David Eric, “The Rise and Fall of Katalla: ‘The Coming Metropolis of Alaska,’” Alaska History, 20 (Spring 2005), 25–41.
Levinson, Marc, “Container Shipping and the Decline of New York, 1955–1975,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 49–82.
McAvoy, Michael R., “How Were the Federal Reserve Bank Locations Selected?,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (July 2006), 505–26.
Petrov, A. Iu., “Deiatel’nost’ Rossiisko-amerikanskoi kompanii nakanune prodazhi Aliaski SShA, 1858–1867 gg.” (Activities of the Russian-American Company before the sale of Alaska to the United States, 1858–1867), Voprosy Istorii (Moscow) (no. 2, 2006), 31–50. In Russian.
Petrov, A. Iu., “Finansovo-khoziaistvennaia deiatel’nost’ Rossisko-amerikanskoi kompanii (1841–1867 gg.)” (Financial-economic activities of the Russian-American Company [1841–1867]), Upravlenie sobstvennost’iu (Moscow) (no. 2, 2005), 47–62. In Russian.
Siegel, Benjamin, “Sweet Nothing: The Triumph of Diet Soda,” American Heritage, 57 (July 2006), 40–49.
Marquis, Christopher, “Historical Environments and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking” (University of Michigan, 2005). Order No. DA3186701.
Williams, Benton D., “Title vii and the Private Sector Origins of Affirmative Action: 1964–1996” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005). Order No. DA3189961.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Claudia Goldin, eds., Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x, 386 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-226-29957-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
McKenna, Christopher D., The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 370 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-521-81039-5.)
Petrov, A. Iu, Rossiisko-amerikanskaia kompaniia: deiatel’nost’ na otechestvennykh i zarubezhnom rynkakh (1799–1867) (The Russian-American Company: Activities in the home and foreign markets [1799–1867]). (Moscow: ivi ran, 2006. 315 pp. isbn 5-940-67153-5.) In Russian.
Wertheimer, Eric, Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xx, 187 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-8047-5089-0.)
Zimring, Carl A., Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv, 220 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3686-6.)
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