Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Arem, Jocelyn, “Lena’s Legacy: The Lasting Power of Caffé Lena, America’s Oldest Continuously Running Folk Coffeehouse,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 55 (Spring–Summer 2008), 17–31.
Bucheli, Marcelo, “Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil,” Business History Review, 82 (Autumn 2008), 529–53.
Edirisooriya, Gunapala, “A Market Analysis of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth-Century American Higher Education Sector,” History of Education (London), 38 (Jan. 2009), 115–32.
Frank, Alison, “The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of the Multinational Corporation,” American Historical Review, 114 (Feb. 2009), 16–41.
Harley, C. Knick, “Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1028–58.
Hintz, Eric S., “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of Duracell,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Jan. 2009), 24–57.
Howard, Vicki, “The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Guenzel: From Independent Retailer to Department Store Chain,” Nebraska History, 89 (Fall 2008), 102–19.
Lanciotti, Norma S., “Foreign Investments in Electric Utilities: A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and American Companies in Argentina, 1890–1960,” Business History Review, 82 (Autumn 2008), 503–28.
Lehmann, Timothy C., “Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Classical Realist Statecraft and Economic Exchange in U.S. Interwar Strategy,” Security Studies (London), 18 (Jan. 2009), 115–47.
Mata, Tiago, “Migrations and Boundary Work: Harvard, Radical Economists, and the Committee on Political Discrimination,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 22 (March 2009), 115–43.
Neufeld, John L., “Corruption, Quasi-rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1059–97.
Norrgard, Chantal, “From Berries to Orchards: Tracing the History of Berrying and Economic Transformation among Lake Superior Ojibwe,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Winter 2008), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v033/33.1.norrgard.pdf.
Prasch, Robert E., “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Contributions to U.S. Economics (1893–1910),” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 309–24.
Sparrow, James T., “‘Buying Our Boys Back’: The Mass Foundations of Fiscal Citizenship in World War II,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 2, 2008), 263–86.
St-Onge, Nicole, “The Persistence of Travel and Trade: St. Lawrence River Valley French Engagés and the American Fur Company, 1818–1840,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 17–37.
Surdam, David G., “The New York Yankees Cope with the Great Depression,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Dec. 2008), 816–40.
Williams, Benton, “AT&T and the Private-Sector Origins of Private-Sector Affirmitive Action,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 542–68.
Wong, John Chi-Kit, “Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Chicago Blackhawks,” in The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City, ed. Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems, 253–80. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.)
Comstock, Sandra Curtis, “Imperial Denim: The Place of Blue Jeans in the Consolidation and Transformation of American Power in the 20th Century” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3311588.
Cserno, Isabell, “Race and Mass Consumption in Consumer Culture: National Trademark Advertising Campaigns in the United States and Germany, 1890–1930” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307782.
Duvall, Jeffery Alan, “‘Burley Paid the Bills’: Twentieth Century Tobacco Culture in the Central Ohio River Valley” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307421.
Marsh, Allison C., “The Ultimate Vacation: Watching Other People Work, a History of Factory Tours in America, 1880–1950” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3311840.
Pilatic, Heather, “Genealogies of Attention: The Emergence of U.S. Hegemony, 1870–1929” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297878.
Taylor, Tom, “The Servant Leadership of John Wooden” (Pepperdine University, 2008). Order No. DA3307917.
Venit, Tamara Hilary, “A Squatters’ Republic: Land Rights, Reform, and Anti-monopoly in California and the Nation, 1850–1920” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313680.
Wolff, Joshua D., “‘The Great Monopoly’: Western Union and the American Telegraph, 1845–1893” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317619.
Zappia, Natale A., “The Interior World: Trading and Raiding in Native California, 1700–1863” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317421.
Delfino, Susanna, La fabbrica dei sogni: Dilemmi economici nel sud degli Stati Uniti tra l’età della Rivoluzione e la crisi di metà Ottocento (The dreams’ factory: Economic dilemmas in the U.S. South before the Revolution and the mid-nineteenth century crisis). (Milan: Selene, 2008. 323 pp. €14.40, isbn 978-8-878-94080-2.) In Italian.
Derbyshire, Wyn, Six Tycoons: The Lives of John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Joseph P. Kennedy. (London: Spiramus, 2008. viii, 251 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-1904905-84-4.)
Ellickson, Robert C., The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-13442-0.)
Gran, Peter, The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxii, 269 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3171-2.)
Perkins, Edwin J., Perkins on U.S. Financial History and Related Topics. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. viii, 173 pp. Paper, $27.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4420-4.)
Rohatyn, Felix, Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. x, 259 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3312-2.)
Sánchez, Joseph P., and Larry D. Miller, Martineztown, 1823–1950: Hispanics, Italians, Jesuits, and Land Investors in New Town Albuquerque. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2009. 220 pp. Cloth, $32.95, isbn 978-1-890689-53-7. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-890689-44-5.)
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