Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Amberg, Stephen, “Varieties of Capitalist Development: Worker-Manager Relations in the Texas Apparel Industry, 1935–1975,” Social Science History, 30 (Summer 2006), 231–62.
Appleby, Joyce, “Money, Money, Money: The Seventeenth-Century Effort to Get an Intellectual Grasp on This Slippery Medium of Trade,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Baker, Jennifer J., “Paper Money Gets Personal: Reading Credit and Character in Early America,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Bakken, Dawn E., “A Young Hoosier’s Adventures on the Mississippi River,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 1–7.
Bakker, Gerben, “The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram’s International Businesses, 1945–1998,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 81–123.
Barlow, Tani E., et al., “The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings,” Gender & History (Oxford), 17 (Aug. 2005), 245–94.
Bonfield, Lynn A., “Ho for California! Caledonia County Gold Miners,” Vermont History, 74 (Winter–Spring 2006), 5–47.
Chris, Cynthia, “Can You Repeat That? Patterns of Media Ownership and the Repurposing Trend,” Communication Review (Yverdon), 9 (Jan.–March 2006), 63–84.
Davis, Joseph H., “An Improved Annual Chronology of U.S. Business Cycles since the 1790s,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (March 2006), 103–21.
Deacon, Desley, “‘Films as foreign offices’: Transnationalism at Paramount in the Twenties and Early Thirties,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 139–56. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)
Desan, Christine, “Money Talks: Listening to the History of Value,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Doty, R. G., “When Money Was Different: A Look Backward,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Fear, Jeffrey, and Christopher Kobrak, “Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 1–48.
Fearon, Peter, “Taxation, Spending, Budgets: Public Finance in Kansas during the Great Depression,” Kansas History, 28 (Winter 2005–2006), 230–43.
Field, Alexander J., “Technological Change and U.S. Productivity Growth in the Interwar Years,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (March 2006), 203–36.
Fishback, Price V., William C. Horrace, and Shawn Kantor, “The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility during the Great Depression,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (April 2006), 179–222.
Glasmeier, Amy, and Lawrence Wood, “Policy Debates Analysis of U.S. Economic Development Administration Expenditure Patterns over 30 Years,” Rethinking History (London), 10 (March 2006), 1261–74.
Helleiner, Eric, “North American Monetary Union? A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prelude,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Hillier, Amy, “Searching for Red Lines: Spatial Analysis of Lending Patterns in Philadelphia, 1940–1960,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 25–47.
Irvin, Benjamin H., “Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Enriching Virtues’: Continental Currency and the Creation of a Revolutionary Republic,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Kanazawa, Mark, “Investment in Private Water Development: Property Rights and Contractual Opportunism during the California Gold Rush,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (April 2006), 357–81.
Karmel, Jamie, “The Market Moment: Banking and Politics in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, 1810–1815,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Winter 2003), 55–80.
Knowles, A. K., “‘The white lands “damn them . . . won’t stick”’: Labor Scarcity and Spatial Discipline in the Antebellum Iron Industry,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 32 (Jan. 2006), 57–73.
Krulikowski, Anne E., “‘Farms Don’t Pay’: The Transformation of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Landscape, 1880–1930,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 193–227.
Levinson, Marc, “Container Shipping and the Decline of New York, 1955–1975,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 49–80.
Levy, Jonathan Ira, “Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875–1905,” American Historical Review, 111 (April 2006), 307–35.
Li, Minqi, and Adam Hanieh, “Secular Trends, Long Waves, and the Cost of the State: Evidence from the Long-Term Movement of the Profit Rate in the U.S. Economy,” Review: Fernand Braudel Center, 29 (no. 1, 2006), 87–114.
Lubetkin, M. John, “‘Twenty-Six Feet and No Bottom’: Surveying and Constructing the Northern Pacific Railroad,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2006), 4–17.
Macias, Richard, “‘We All Had a Cause’: Kansas City’s Bomber Plant, 1941–1945,” Kansas History, 28 (Winter 2005–2006), 244–61. Heavily illustrated.
Marzagalli, Silvia, “Establishing Transatlantic Trade Networks in Time of War: Bordeaux and the United States, 1793–1815,” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 811–44.
Matthews, Jill Julius, “Modern Nomads and National Film History: The Multi-continental Career of J. D. Williams,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 157–69. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)
Mullins, William H., “Businessman or Rogue? C. C. Julian in the Oklahoma Oil Fields,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Winter 2005–2006), 466–89.
Nitzan, Jonathan, and Shimshon Bichler, “New Imperialism or New Capitalism?,” Review: Fernand Braudel Center, 29 (no. 1, 2006), 1–86.
O’Malley, Michael, “Free Silver and the Constitution of Man: The Money Debate and Immigration at the Turn of the Century,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Perkins, Waldo C., “From Switzerland to the Colorado River: Life Sketch of the Entrepreneurial Daniel Bonelli, the Forgotten Pioneer,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Winter 2006), 4–23.
Peterson, Mark, “Big Money Comes to Boston: The Curious History of the Pine Tree Shilling,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Reynolds, Terry S., “‘Quite an Experiment’: A Mining Company’s Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915,” Agricultural History, 80 (Winter 2006), 64–98.
Roberts, Blain, “A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression,” Southern Cultures, 12 (Spring 2006), 30–52.
Salvucci, Linda K., “Atlantic Intersections: Early American Commerce and the Rise of the Spanish West Indies (Cuba),” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 781–809.
Sanders, Anthony B., “The ‘New Judicial Federalism’ before Its Time: A Comprehensive Review of Economic Substantive Due Process under State Constitutional Law since 1940 and the Reasons for Its Recent Decline,” American University Law Review, 55 (Dec. 2005), 457–540.
Sklansky, Jeffrey, “‘A Bank on Parnassus’: Nicholas Biddle and the Beauty of Banking,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Truxes, Thomas M., “Transnational Trade in the Wartime North Atlantic: The Voyage of the Snow Recovery,” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 751–80.
Turner, Leland, “The Livestock Lobby: Murdo Mackenzie, Railroad Reform, Cattle Associations, and Progressive Legislation,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 77 (2004), 14–34.
Valeri, Mark, “The Rise of Usury in Early New England: Commerce, Bills of Exchange, and the Morality of Money,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Wright, Robert E., “Currency Unions Past and Present: Units of Account, Constitutions, and Media of Exchange,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Zakim, Michael, “Bookkeeping as Ideology: Capitalist Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Zakim, Michael, “The Dialectics of Merchant Capital: New York City Businessmen and the Secession Crisis of 1860–61,” New York History, 87 (Winter 2006), 67–87.
Armstrong, Stephen R., II, “Persistent Optimism and Recurrent Skepticism: Herbert Spencer and the United States” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187461.
Bowie, James I., “Innovation, Imitation, Legitimacy, and Deviance in the Design of Graphical Trademarks in the United States, 1884–2003” (University of Arizona, 2005). Order No. DA3179059.
Bush, Caleb Michael, “Land, Conflict, and the ‘net of incorporation’: Capitalism’s Uneven Expansion into the Navajo Indian Reservation, 1860–2000” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2005). Order No. DA3179253.
Erickson, David James, “Community Capitalism: How Housing Advocates, the Private Business Sector, and Government Forged New Low-Income Housing Policy, 1964–1996” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3187029.
Helmer, Joel William, “Float Trips, Dams, and Tailwater Trout: An Environmental History of the White River of Northern Arkansas, 1870–2004” (Oklahoma State University, 2005). Order No. DA3181657.
Huiying, Wang, “Kennidi dangzhengshiqi Meiguode duiwai jingji yuanzhu zhengce” (U.S. foreign economic aid policy in the Kennedy administration) (Nankai University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Jianhong, Wang, “Meiguo fantuolasi wenti yanjiu” (Anti-trust issues in the United States) (Nankai University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Junfang, Song, “Zhongei guanxide zhengzhi jingjixue yanjiu” (Research into the political economy of Sino–United States relations) (Fudan University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Qingshi, Zhao, “20shiji 70niandai shiyouweiji yu Meiguo shiyou anquan tixi” (The petroleum crisis and the American petroleum security system in the 1970s: Construction, proceedings, and reform) (Fudan University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Tao, Li, “Meiguode cishan jijinhui yu Meiguo zhengzhi” (American charitable foundations and politics in the United States) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Wanli, Yu, “Meiguo kuaguogongsi yu 90niandaide Zhongmeiguanxi” (Multi-national corporations in the United States and Sino–United States relations in the 1990s) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Yi, Shi, “Cong Jiazhangzhi dao ziyoufangren” (From the patriarchal system to laissez-faire) (Central University for Nationalities, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Yue, Lu, “Andelu, kaneiji yanjiu” (On Andrew Carnegie) (East China Normal University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Yuejun, Jing, “Zhanhou Meiguo chanyejiegou yanbian yanjiu” (On industrial structural development in the United States after World War II) (Jinlin University, China, 2004). In Chinese.
Anastaksi, Dimitry, Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960–1971. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv, 285 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8020-3903-0. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8020-3821-2.)
Brison, Jeffrey D., Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. xiv, 281 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-7735-2868-7.)
Lubetkin, M. John, Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii, 380 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8061-3740-1.)
MacGillivray, Alex, A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of Our Incredible Shrinking Planet. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006. xiv, 338 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 0-7867-1710-6.)
Ninnemann, John L., and Duane A. Smith, San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado’s Mining Legacy. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xvi, 85 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8263-3578-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Perez, Karni R., Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xvi, 263 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8173-5344-5.)
Ware, Alan, The Democratic Party Heads North, 1877–1962. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 281 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 0-521-85827-5. Paper, $24.99, isbn 0-521-67500-6.)
Wilkinson, Rupert, Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. xiv, 346 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8265-1502-9.)
Wright, Robert E., and David J. Cowen, Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-226-91068-7.)
Jaquess, Asbury C., “‘The Journals of the Davy Crockett commencing December 20th, 1834,’” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 8–24.
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