Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Adams, Sean P., “Promotion, Competition, Captivity: The Political Economy of Coal,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 74–95.
Asano, Keiichi, “1950 nendai beikou ni okeru kokubo shishutsu no zodai to chusho kigyo no chii no henka” (Changes in small business relating to the expansion of defense expenditures in the 1950s), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 3 (2004), 23–43. In Japanese.
Boothby, Thomas, “Designing American Lenticular Truss Bridges, 1878–1900,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 30 (no. 1, 2004), 5–17. Heavily illustrated.
Chang, Byeng-Hee, and Eyun-Jung Ki, “A Longitudinal Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions Patterns of Radio Companies in the U.S.,” Journal of Radio Studies, 11 (Dec. 2004), 194–208.
Chew, Richard S., “Certain Victims of an International Contagion: The Panic of 1797 and the Hard Times of the Late 1790s in Baltimore,” Journal of the Early Republic, 25 (Winter 2005), 565–613.
Coates, Peter A., “Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California,” California History, 83 (no. 1, 2005), 8–27.
Coclanis, Peter A., “Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 130–46.
Danow, Harris, “History Turned ‘Sideways’: Granholm v. Heald and the Twenty-first Amendment,” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 23 (no. 3, 2006), 761–78.
Dasgupta, Anisha S., “Public Finance and the Fortunes of the Early American Lottery,” QLR, 24 (no. 2, 2006), 227–64.
Dye, Alan D., “Cuba and the Origins of the U.S. Sugar Quota,” Revista de Indias (Madrid), 65 (Jan.–April 2005), 193–218.
Fasce, Ferdinando, “Un contabile ligure a New York. L’ Ansaldo in America durante la Grande Guerra” (A Ligurean clerk in New York City. Andando & company in America during World War I), in Da Ulisse a . . . La città e il mare. Dalla Liguria al mondo (From Ulysses to . . . The City and the Sea. From Liguria to the world), ed. Giorgetta Revelli, 439–49. (Pisa: ets, 2005. 664 pp. €30.00, isbn 88-467-1068-1.) In Italian.
Federico, Giovanni, “Not Guilty? Agriculture in the 1920s and the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (Dec. 2005), 949–76.
Flynn, David T., “The Duration of Book Credit in Colonial New England,” Historical Methods, 38 (Fall 2005), 168–77.
Follansbee, Joe, “The Death, Burial, and Remembrance of Charles Foss, Master of the Schooner Wawona,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Spring 2005), 115–23. Heavily illustrated.
Follett, Richard, “Give to the Labor of America. The Market of America: Marketing the Old South’s Sugar Crop, 1800–1860,” Revista de Indias (Madrid), 65 (Jan.–April 2005), 117–46.
Globerman, Steven, and Paul Storer, “Canada-U.S. Free Trade and Price Convergence in North America,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 35 (Autumn 2005), 423–52.
Green, Leah Moren, “The Erie Canal and the American Imagination: The Erie Canal’s Effects on American Legal Development, 1817–1869,” Alabama Law Review, 56 (Summer 2005), 1167–86.
Hashikawa, Kenryu, “Rural Enterprise and the Northern Economy in the Early Republic: The New Jersey Charcoal Venture as a Test Case,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo) (no. 15, 2004), 97–114.
Hee, Harold S. Y., “The Tachibana Incident,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 135–57.
Hiraide, Naomichi, “Anteberamu ki lousiana shu ni okeru ‘america taisei’ no jyuyo” (Was the “American System” the idea of centralization in Louisiana?), Aoyama Keizai Ronshu (Tokyo), 55 (2004), 53–69. In Japanese.
Hollander, Gail M., “Securing Sugar: National Security Discourse and the Establishment of Florida’s Sugar-Producing Region,” Economic Geography, 81 (Oct. 2005), 339–58.
Huffman, Thomas R., “‘Enemies of the People’: Asbestos and the Reserve Mining Trail,” Minnesota History, 59 (Fall 2005), 292–306. Heavily illustrated.
Jackson, Steven J., “Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 22 (Oct. 2005), 263–80.
Kline, Ronald R., “Competing Research Traditions in American Industry: Uncertain Alliances between Engineering and Science at Westinghouse Electric, 1886–1935,” Enterprise & Society, 6 (Dec. 2005), 601–45.
Knutsen, Thorbjørn, “Mellom Israel og oljen” (Between Israel and the oil), Babylon: Journal on the Middle East and North Africa, 3 (no. 1, 2005), 10–20. In Norwegian.
Kornblith, Gary J., et al., “Symposium on Class in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 25 (Winter 2005), 523–55.
Kusui, Toshiro, “New deal ki america shihon syugi no kozo tenkan” (The systematic transformation of America’s capitalism during the New Deal), Yokohama Shodia Ronsyu (Yokohama), 38 (no. 1, 2004), 74–198. In Japanese.
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., “Did Insecure Property Rights Slow Economic Development? Some Lessons from Economic History,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 146–64.
Lantis, Jeffrey S., “Leadership Matters: International Treaty Ratification in Canada and the United States,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 35 (Autumn 2005), 383–421.
Lewis, David L., “Introduction,” in My Forty Years with Ford, by Charles E. Sorensen with Samuel T. Williamson, vii–xvii. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. xviii, 345 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8143-3279-X.)
Miyazaki, Shinji, “Daikyoko, new deal ki ni okeru at&t to roshi kankei” (Employee-employer relations in at&t during the Great Depression and the New Deal), Meijo Ronso (Nagoya-shi), 4 (no. 4, 2004), 13–30. In Japanese.
Murphy, Sharon Ann, “Securing Human Property: Slavery, Life Insurance, and Industrialization in the Upper South,” Journal of the Early Republic, 25 (Winter 2005), 615–52.
O’Connor, Charles S., “The Politics of Industrialization and Interracialism in Sumter County, Georgia: Koinonia Farm in the 1950s,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 89 (Winter 2005), 505–27.
Oden, Derek, “From Cob to Can: The Development of Iowa’s Canning Industry in the Late Nineteeth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” Annals of Iowa, 63 (Fall 2004), 390–418.
Okada, Yasuo, “America tobu no nouson shonin” (Rural merchants in America’s east), Mita Gakkai Zasshi (Tokyo), 97 (no. 2, 2004), 183–216. In Japanese.
Orihara, Takumi, “1898 nen toitsu hasanho no seiritsu katei” (A history of the general bankruptcy law of 1898 in the United States), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 3 (2004), 1–21. In Japanese.
Purcell, Aaron D., “A Spirit for Speculation: David Burford, Antebellum Entrepreneur of Middle Tennessee,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 90–109.
Robinson, John W., “Antonio Maria Armijo: New Mexico Trader to California Ranchero,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 63, Fall 2005), 4–15. Heavily illustrated.
Salvati, Joseph J., with Joseph R. Salvati, “The Salvati Food Products Company: Made in The Bronx,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 42 (Spring 2005), 23–30.
Schnurmann, Claudia, “Atlantic Trade and American Identities: The Correlations of Supranational Commerce, Political Opposition, and Colonial Regionalism,” in The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel, ed. Peter A. Coclanis, 186–204. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xxii, 377 pp. $49.95, isbn 1-57003-554-7.)
Shimada, Masugi, “Masaru plan to ‘seisansei no seiji’” (The Marshall Plan and the politics of productivity), in Europe togo no rinen to kiseki (The idea of European integration and its evolution in historical perspective), ed. Eisaku Kihira, . (Kyoto: University of Kyoto Press, 2004. isbn 4876986266.) In Japanese.
Shortridge, James R., “Regional Image and Sense of Place in Kansas,” Kansas History, 28 (Autumn 2005), 202–19.
Sukkoo, Kim, “Industrialization and Urbanization: Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?,” Explorations in Economic History, 42 (Oct. 2005), 586–98.
Turrini, Joseph M., “Catholic Social Action at Work: A Brief History of the Labor Collection at the Catholic University of America,” American Archivist, 68 (Spring–Summer 2005), 130–51.
Usselman, Steven W., and Richard R. John, “Patent Politics: Intellectual Property, the Railroad Industry, and the Problem of Monopoly,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 96–125.
Vande Creek, Drew, “Solomon Huebner and the Development of the Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905–1927,” Enterprise & Society, 6 (Dec. 2005), 646–81.
Virts, Nancy, “Change in the Plantation System: American South, 1910–1945,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Jan. 2006), 153–76.
Wadhwani, R. Daniel, “Protecting Small Savers: The Political Economy of Economic Security,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 126–45.
Warnes, Kathy, “Little Ecorse (and River Rouge) Built and Launched Big Ships: The Story of the Great Lakes Engineering Works,” Inland Seas, 61 (Fall 2005), 196–215.
Whelan, Bernadette, “Ireland, the Marshall Plan, and U.S. Cold War Concerns,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 8 (Winter 2006), 68–94.
Winpenny, Thomas R., “A Father Who Distracts and a Family That Underfinances: The Early, Bittersweet Career of Milton S. Hershey,” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 107 (Fall 2005), 62–73.
Barrow, Heather B., “The Automobile in the Garden: Henry Ford, Suburbanization, and the Detroit Metropolis, 1919–1941” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3168316.
Bergmann, William H., “Commerce and Arms: The Federal Government, Native Americans, and the Economy of the Old Northwest, 1783–1807” (University of Cincinnati, 2005). Order No. DA3176703.
Booker, Clyde G., “Dying for a Job: African Americans, Industrial Hegemony, and the Hawk’s Nest Tunnell, 1930–1936” (University of Kentucky, 2005). Order No. DA3167863.
Granados, Francisco J., “Globalization of Technological Industries: Production, Innovation, and Markets” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3172800.
Lange, Alexandra, “Tower Typewriter and Trademark: Architects, Designers, and the Corporate Utopia, 1956–1964” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170848.
Lee, Kyu Sang, “Rationality, Minds, and Machines in the Laboratory: A Thematic History of Vernon Smith’s Experimental Economics” (University of Notre Dame, 2005). Order No. DA3171624.
Lippmann, Stephen Michael, “Forms, Frames, and Frequencies: Regulatory Capture and Its Effect on the U.S. Radio Broadcasting Industry, 1920–1950” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170486.
Phillips-Fein, Kim, “Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals, and Politicians against the New Deal” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3174870.
Thorndike, Joseph Jacobs, III, “The Price of Civilization: Taxation for Depression and War, 1932–1945” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3177460.
Cavazza, Stefano, and Emanuela Scarpellini, eds., Il secolo dei consumi (The century of consumption). (Rome: Carocci, 2006. 246 pp. €17.10, isbn 88-430-3616-5.) In Italian.
Corbin, Annalies, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud or How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xviii, 145 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 1-58544-484-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-58544-516-9.)
D’Antonio, Michael, Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 305 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-7432-6409-6.)
Doubles, Malcolm C., A Century Plus: A History of Sonoco Products Company. (Hartsville: Coker College Press, 2005. xvi, 373 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-9703644-1-5.)
Evans, Nancy Goyne, Windsor-Chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006. xvi, 475 pp. $65.00, isbn 1-58465-493-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Jiyong, Chen, ed., Meigui xinjingji zhouqi yu Zhongmei jinggmao guanxi (The American new economic cycle and Sino-American economic and trade relations). (Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2004. 426 pp. Y 21.00, isbn 7-307-04312-2.) In Chinese.
Kano, Tadao, America ni yoru gendai sekai keizai chitsujo no keisei (America’s formation of the contemporary global economic order). (Tokyo: Nanso sha, 2004. 285 pp. ¥5,200, isbn 4816503196.) In Japanese.
Light, Ken, and Melanie Light, Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xii, 139 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-520-24654-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Meirong, Fu, ed., Meiguo jingji shihua (American economic history). (Beijing: University of International Business and Economics, 2004. 268 pp. Y 30.00, isbn 7-81078-352-1.) In Chinese.
Mian, Chen, Meiguo lianbang chubeitixi de lishi yuanyuan (Historical origins of the federal reserve system in the U.S.). (Beijing: Social Science Publishing House of China, 2003. 259 pp. Y 20.00, isbn 7-5004-4268-8.) In Chinese.
Qiming, Han, and Jianshe Meiguo, Meiguo gognye geming shiqi jingji shehui bianqian jiqi qishi (Constructing the U.S.: Social changes and their inspiration in the period of the American industrial revolution). (Beijing: Chinese Economy, 2004. 381 pp. Y 22.00, isbn 7-5017-6558-8.) In Chinese.
Wasik, John F., The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xiv, 270 pp. $24.95, isbn 1-4039-6884-5.)
Sorensen, Charles E., with Samuel T. Williamson, My Forty Years with Ford. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. xviii, 345 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8143-3279-X.) Originally published in 1956.
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