Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Allen, Ryan, “Benefit or Burden? Social Capital, Gender, and the Economic Adaptation of Refugees,” International Migration Review, 43 (Summer 2009), 332–65.
Bentley, Joseph I., “In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo: Prelude to Joseph Smith’s Financial Disasters,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 23–49.
Binnema, Ted, and William A. Dobak, “‘Like the Greedy Wolf’: The Blackfeet, the St. Louis Fur Trade, and War Fever, 1807–1831,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 411–40.
Blackford, Mansel G., “Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006,” Business History Review, 83 (Summer 2009), 239–66.
Bloom, Murray A., “The Cargo Preference Act of 1954 and Related Legislation,” Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, 39 (July 2008), 289–314.
Campbell, William J., “An Adverse Patron: Land, Trade, and George Croghan,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 117–40.
Clymer, Jeffory A., “Family Money: Race and Economic Rights in Antebellum U.S. Law and Fiction,” American Literary History, 21 (Summer 2009), 211–38.
Cook, Alison, and Christy Glass, “When Markets Blink: U.S. Stock Price Responses to the Appointment of Minority Leaders,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (Sept. 2009), 1183–202.
Dougherty, Jack, et al., “School Choice in Suburbia: Test Scores, Race, and Housing Markets,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Aug. 2009), 523–48.
van Elteren, Mel, “Neoliberalization and Transnational Capitalism in the American Mold,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (August 2009), 177–97.
Falk, Cynthia G., “Forts, Rum, Slaves, and the Herkimer’s Rise to Power in the Mohawk Valley,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 221–34.
Freeman, Elizabeth E., “Ragtown: Wirt, Oklahoma, and the Healdton Boom,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 34–55.
Gatch, Loren C., “‘An’ the West Jes’ Smiled’: Oklahoma Banking and the Panic of 1907,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 4–33.
Germain, Randall, “Financial Order and World Politics: Crisis, Change, and Continuity,” International Affairs (London), 85 (July 2009), 669–87.
Gotham, Kevin Fox, “Creating Liquidity out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (London), 33 (June 2009), 355–71.
Hansen, Bradley A., and Mary Eschelbach Hansen, “Religion, Social Capital, and Business Bankruptcy in the United States, 1921–1932,” Business History (Liverpool), 50 (Nov. 2008), 714–27.
Hernandez, Jesus, “Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento, 1930–2004,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (London), 33 (June 2009), 291–313.
Koike, Kota, “19 seiki shoto no Amerika Gasshuikoku niyoru eiryo Nishi-Indo Shokuminchi tono chokusetsu boeki saikai” (The resumption of direct trade between the United States and the British West Indies: A consideration of the American Navigation Act and the Colonial Trade Act), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 7 (2008), 79–90. In Japanese.
Matsumoto, Yukio, “Washinton seikenka no renpo seifu no seiritsu to kenkoku shoki amerika shihonshugi” (The federal government of the Washington administration and early American capitalism), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 7 (2008), 1–19. In Japanese.
Minchin, Timothy J., “‘It Knocked This City to Its Knees’: The Closure of Pillowtex Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry,” Labor History, 50 (Aug. 2009), 287–311.
Minchin, Timothy J., “An Uphill Fight: Ernest F. Hollings and the Struggle to Protect the South Carolina Textile Industry, 1959–2005,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (July 2008), 187–211.
Morris, Richard J., “A Note on the Economic Impact of the Prerevolutionary Nonimportation Movements on Urban Artisans,” Labor History, 50 (Aug. 2009), 269–86.
Newman, Kathe, “Post–industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (London), 33 (June 2009), 314–31.
Nichols, David A., “A Commercial Embassy in the Old Northwest: The U.S. Indian Trading Factory at Fort Wayne, 1803–1812,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Winter 2008), 1–16.
Panitch, Leo, and Martijn Konings, “Myths of Neoliberal Deregulation,” New Left Review (London), 57 (May–June 2009), 67–83.
Pollak, Oliver B., “Looking for ‘Wide-Awake’ Young People: Commercial Business Colleges in Nebraska, 1873–1950,” Nebraska History, 90 (no. 1, 2009), 42–50.
Prat, Marc, “Between the Firm and the Market: An International Comparison of the Commercial Structures of the Cotton Industry (1820–1939),” Business History (Liverpool), 51 (March 2009), 181–201.
Richardson, Gary, and Patrick Van Horn, “Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City during the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (June 2009), 446–65.
Thirkell-White, Ben, “Dealing with the Banks: Populism and the Public Interest in the Global Financial Crisis,” International Affairs (London), 85 (July 2009), 689–711.
Warner, Edward S., “The Employment of Seamen aboard American Great Lakes Commercial Sailing Vessels,” Inland Seas, 65 (Spring 2009), 14–25.
Wyly, Elvin, et al., “Cartographies of Race and Class: Mapping the Class-Monopoly Rents of American Subprime Mortgage Captial,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (London), 33 (June 2009), 332–54.
Canedo, Eduardo Federico, “The Rise of the Deregulation Movement in Modern America, 1957–1980” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333313.
Frank, Marti Jaye, “Carrying the Mill: Steam, Waterpower, and New England Textile Mills in the 19th Century” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3334725.
Goff, Brendan M., “The Heartland Abroad: The Rotary Club’s Mission of Civic Internationalism” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3328828.
La Berge, Leigh Claire, “Scandals and Abstractions: 1980s Finance and the Revaluation of American Culture” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3327230.
Larkin, Micaela Anne, “Labor’s Desert: Mexican Workers, Unions, and Entrepreneurial Conservatism in Arizona, 1917–1972” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3333914.
Lauer, Josh, “The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840–1940” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328606.
Lee, Elizabeth Oliver, “‘Potomac’s Valley Shall Become a Domain We Create’: Commercialism and the South Branch Valley, 1750–1800” (West Virginia University, 2008). Order No. DA3326906.
Levine, Jonathan, “Credit Where It Is Due: A Social History of Consumer Credit in America” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330146.
Myers, Polly M., “Shop Traditions: Constructing and Maintaining the Boeing Family at the Boeing Company” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3328328.
Parker, Chad, “Transports of Progress: The Arabian American Oil Company and American Modernization in Saudi Arabia, 1945–1973” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3324514.
Riffel, Brent E., “The Feathered Kingdom: Tyson Foods and the Transformation of American Land, Labor, and Law, 1930–2005” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3334177.
Robinson, Deborah E., “The Impact of Deregulation and Restructuring: An Empirical Case Study of the Electric Utility Industry from 1998 through 2007” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3320346.
Rodgers, Sharon Yvonne, “Merchants and Markets in Provincial Boston, 1690–1764” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3324316.
Ross, Barbara, “Economic Conditions and Enrollment at Community Colleges in Hawai‘i: A Multiple Case Study” (University of Hawai‘i, 2008). Order No. DA3326455.
Akimoto, Eiichi, Sekai daikyoko: 1929 nen ni okottaka (The world great depression: What happened in 1929). (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2009. 330 pp. ¥1,100, isbn 978-4-06291-935-7.) In Japanese.
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, American Consumer Society, 1865–2005: From Hearth to hdtv. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009. xiv, 330 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-88295-264-2.)
Cravens, Hamilton, ed., Great Depression: People and Perspectives. (Santa Barbara: abc-clio, 2009. xxxii, 275 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-1-59884-093-3.)
Forrant, Robert, Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. (Amityville: Baywood, 2009. xii, 201 pp. Paper, $38.95, isbn 978-0-89503-326-0.)
Medema, Steven G., The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xvi, 230 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-12296-0.)
Mirowski, Philip, and Dieter Plehwe, eds., The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. viii, 469 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-674-03318-4.)
Sudo, Isao, Sengo Amerika tsuka-kin’yu seisaku no keisei—nyudiru kara “akodo” e (The evolution of the monetary-financial policy in postwar America—From New Deal to “Accord”). (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2008. 356 pp. ¥5,985, isbn 978-4-81580-584-5.) In Japanese.
McShane, Stephen G., and Gary S. Wilk, Steel Giants: Historic Images from the Calumet Regional Archives. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xviii, 283 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35299-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Thom, Helen Hopkins, Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xxiv, 125 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9098-7.) Originally published in 1929.
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