Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Alexander, Thomas G., “David Eccles and the Origins of Utah Construction Company—Utah International,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Winter 2009), 4–25.
Balleisen, Edward J., “Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895–1932,” Business History Review, 83 (Spring 2009), 113–60.
Brandon, Jamie C., “Van Winkle’s Mill: Recovering Lost Industrial and African-American Heritages in the Ozarks,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 429–45.
Burr, William, “Casting a Shadow over Trade: The Problem of Private Claims and Blocked Assets in U.S.-China Relations, 1972–1975,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 315–49.
Cahill, Edward, “The Other Panic of 1819: Irving’s Sketch Book, Literary Overproduction, and the Politics of the ‘Purely Literary,’” Common-Place, 9 (April 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Churella, Albert J., “Delivery to the Customer’s Door: Efficiency, Regulatory Policy, and Integrated Rail-Truck Operations, 1900–1938,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 98–136.
Cunningham, Patricia A., “From Underwear to Swimwear: Branding at Atlas and bvd in the Late 1930s,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (March 2009), 38–52.
Currarino, Rosanne, “The ‘Revolution Now in Progress’: Social Economics and the Labor Question,” Labor History, 50 (Feb. 2009), 1–17.
Dennis, Benjamin N., and Talan B. Iscan, “Engel versus Baumol: Accounting for Structural Change Using Two Centuries of U.S. Data,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (April 2009), 186–202.
Duguid, Paul, “French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 3–37.
Foulk, Larry, “The Freeport Sulphur Company Enterprise at Grande Ecaille and the Rise and Fall of Port Sulphur, Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Spring 2009), 203–12.
Harris, Howell J., “Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry, c. 1815–1875: Making and Selling the First Universal Consumer Durable,” Business History Review, 82 (Winter 2008), 701–33.
Hilt, Eric, “Rogue Finance: The Life and Fire Insurance Company and the Panic of 1826,” Business History Review, 83 (Spring 2009), 87–112.
Howe, Dennis E., “An Archaeological Survey of the Whiteport Cement Works,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 33 (no. 1, 2007), 5–26.
Karsner, Douglas, “A Yen for the Dollar: Airlines and the Transformation of U.S.-Japanese Tourism, 1947–1977,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 27 (2009), 15–29.
Kobrak, Christopher, “Family Finance: Value Creation and the Democratization of Cross-Border Governance,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 38–89.
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., “Scylla or Charybdis? Historical Reflections on Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance,” Business History Review, 83 (Spring 2009), 9–34.
Lópes, Maria-Aparecida, “El intercambio en la frontera norte de México: Commercio internacional en el ámbito regional (1850–1884)” (Trade on Mexico’s northern border: International trade in the regional sphere (1850–1884)), Secuencia (Mexico City) (no. 73, 2009), 63–84. In Spanish.
McGinnis, Karin, “Minnesota Letterheads: The Evolution of Business Style,” Minnesota History, 61 (Winter 2008–2009), 132–47.
Mitchell, Daniel J. B., “‘Duke, Is There Perhaps Something You Forgot to Tell Me?’: Pete Wilson’s First-Term Struggle with the California Budget,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2008–2009), 379–418.
Nigra, Fabio, “Fredrick Winslow Taylor como microeconomista” (Fredrick Winslow Taylor as a microeconomist), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 73–93. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Patton, Randall L., “Mills B. Lane Jr. and Enterprise in a New South,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 27 (2009), 93–106.
Ramey, Valerie A., “Time Spent in Home Production in the Twentieth-Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (March 2009), 1–47.
Rasmussen, Margaret Byrd Adams, “Waging War with Wool: Thomas Jefferson’s Campaign for American Commerical Independence from England,” Material Culture, 41 (Spring 2009), 17–37. Heavily illustrated.
Rousseau, Peter L., “Share Liquidity, Participation, and Growth of the Boston Market for Industrial Equities, 1854–1897,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (April 2009), 203–19.
Salomonsson, Eric J., “Ethnicity versus Reality: The Swedish Cemetery Corportation of Worcester, Massachusetts,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (July 2008), 160–71.
Shpotov, B. M., “Formirovanie ‘amerikanskogo’ puti industral’nogo razvitiia (konets XIX–nachalo XX veka)” (The formation of the ‘American’ way of industrial development (from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century)), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 2, 2009), 20–35. In Russian.
Shumaker, Mark, “Pioneer Challenger: The Unusual Life of a Great Lakes Ore Carrier,” Inland Seas, 64 (Winter 2008), 290–99.
Spencer, David, “The ‘Work as Bad’ Thesis in Economics: Origins, Evolution, and Challenges,” Labor History, 50 (Feb. 2009), 39–57.
Stewart, James I., “Economic Opportunity or Hardship? The Causes of Geographic Mobility on the Agricultural Frontier, 1860–1880,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (March 2009), 238–68.
Stoddard, Christiana, “Why Did Education Become Publicly Funded? Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Growth of Public Primary Schooling in the United States,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (March 2009), 172–201.
Sylla, Richard, Robert E. Wright, and David J. Cowen, “Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792,” Business History Review, 83 (Spring 2009), 61–86.
Tobbell, Dominique A., “Allied against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry–Academic Physician Relations in the United States, 1945–1970,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (Winter 2008), 878–912.
Traflet, Janice M., “Never Bought, Always Sold: Salesmanship, the Small Investor, and the Early Postwar Surge in Mutual Fund Participation,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 27 (2009), 5–14.
Duarte, Pedro Garcia, “Constructing Concepts of Optimal Monetary Policy in the Postwar Period” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3318861.
Eid, Jean, “Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39467.
Geiger, Mark W., “Missouri’s Hidden Civil War: Financial Conspiracy and the Decline of the Planter Elite, 1861–1865” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2006). Order No. DA3322697.
Martin, James Walter, IV, “Cultures of Business, Work, and Leisure in the United Fruit Company’s Caribbean, 1880–1940” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3318102.
Peterson, Helen Palmer, “Landscapes of Capital: Culture in Industrial Western Company Town, Clarkdale, Arizona, 1914–1929” (Northern Arizona University, 2008). Order No. DA3318491.
Singh, Ranjita Majumder, “Unravelling the Causes: Why Do Firms Adopt a New Technical Standard in the U.S. Cellular Communications Industry, 1989–2000” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR39874.
Brandt, Karl Gerard, Ronald Reagan and the House Democrats: Gridlock, Partisanship, and the Fiscal Crisis. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 254 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1835-3.)
Davis, Gerald F., Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii, 304 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-19-921661-1.)
Frey, Donald E., America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. viii, 239 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-7914-9351-9.)
Godwin, Jack, Clintonomics: How Bill Clinton Reengineered the Reagan Revolution. (New York: Amacom, 2009. xiv, 290 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8144-1398-2.)
Laymon, Sherry, Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902–1954. (Little Rock: Butler Center, 2009. 239 pp. Cloth, $37.95, isbn 978-0-9800897-6-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-9800897-7-6.)
Makley, Michael J., John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009. xiv, 270 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-770-1.)
McDonald, Patrick J., The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 338 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-76136-9. Paper, $26.99, isbn 978-0-521-74412-6.)
Miller, Orlando W., The Frontier in Alaska and the Matanuska Colony. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2009. xii, 329 pp. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60223-053-8.) Originally published in 1975.
Nigra, Fabio, and Pablo Pozzi, La decadencia de los Estados Unidos, de la crisis de 1979 a la megacrisis de 2009 (The decadence of the United States, from the crisis of 1979 to the megacrisis of 2009). (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 320 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49350-2.) In Spanish.
Nowaczewska, Renata, Dobroczynna Ameryka: Walka ze skutkami Wielkiego Kryzysu w latach, 1929–1937 (America on welfare: The struggle to overcome the results of the Great Depression, 1929–1937). (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2009. 353 pp. zl. 39.00, isbn 978-8-323-50547-1.) In Polish.
Puffert, Douglas J., Tracks across Continents, Paths through History: The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 360 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-226-68509-0.)
Renehan, Edward J., Jr., Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. (New York: Basic, 2007. xx, 364 pp. Cloth, $27.50, isbn 978-0-465-00255-9. Paper, $17.50, isbn 978-0-465-00256-6.)
Togyer, Jason, For the Love of Murphy’s: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii, 279 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-271-03370-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Wertheim, Arthur Frank, Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xviii, 332 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-61136-8.)
Yanik, Anthony J., Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. xii, 189 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8143-3423-2.)
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