Recent Scholarship
Business and Economics
Bateman, Fred, and Jason E. Taylor, “Public Capital and the State-Level Variation of New Deal Expenditures,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 159–71.
Elfenbein, Jessica I., “Baltimore’s M.S. Levy and Sons: Straw Hat Makers to the World, 1870–1960,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 89–101.
Furman, Jeffrey L., and Megan MacGarvie, “When the Pill Peddlers Met the Scientists: The Antecedents and Implications of Early Collaborations between U.S. Pharmaceutical Firms and Universities,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 133–46.
Gatch, Loren, “Local Money in the United States during the Great Depression,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 47–61.
Hannah, Leslie, “Logistics, Market Size, and Giant Plants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Global View,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (March 2008), 46–79.
Jones, James B., Jr., “Monopoly’s Triumph over Free Market Capitalism and Cartoons: The Midland Railroad Subscription Referendum of September 1887,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 66 (Winter 2007), 314–27.
Lauer, Josh, “From Rumor to Written Record: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in Nineteenth-Century America,” Technology and Culture, 49 (April 2008), 301–24.
Richter, Ralf, “Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Machine Tool Industry—United States and Germany, 1870–1930,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 173–88.
Rifkin, Mark, “Debt and the Transnationalization of Hawai‘I,” American Quarterly, 60 (March 2008), 43–66.
Taylor, Christiane Diehl, “The Worth of Wives: 1950s Corporate America ‘Discovers’ Spousal Social Capital,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 33–46.
Blomquist, Roger C., “Wyoming Leather: An Almanac of Wyoming Saddle Businesses and Wyoming Saddlemakers, 1860–1930” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2007). Order No. DA3275062.
Casserly, Brian Gerard, “Securing the Sound: The Evolution of Civilian-Military Relations in the Puget Sound Area, 1891–1984” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3265308.
Dickey, Jennifer W., “‘A tough little patch of history’: Atlanta’s Marketplace for ‘Gone with the Wind’ Memory” (Georgia State University, 2007). Order No. DA3278584.
Gray, David Alan, “Visualizing a Classless America: Motivational Campaigns in the Industrial Workplace, 1920–1955” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3280711.
Hobor, George, “Post Industrial Pathways: The Economic Reorganization of the Urban Rust Belt” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3266254.
Hong, Sok Chul, “The Health and Economic Burdens of Malaria: The American Case” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3262247.
Jo, Michael, “Spiritual Capitalism: Christianity, Commerce, and Conservatism in Industrial America, 1900–1950” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267277.
Kim, Kyung-ran, “The Effects of Advertising and Publicity on Corporate Reputation and Sales Revenue: 1985–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277536.
Kuziemko, Ilyana Maria, “Essays on Social Factors Related to U.S. Income Inequality” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265014.
MacCaulay, Dendy, “The Importance of Neighborhood Ties: Relocation Decisions after the Chicago Fire of 1871” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3262261.
Ott, Julia Cathleen, “When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy and the Emergence of the Retail Investor in the United States, 1890–1930” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267395.
Paulett, Robert Edward, “Trading Lives: Mapping the Pathways and Peoples of the Southeastern Deerskin Trade, 1732–1775” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3268808.
Rzeznik, Thomas F., “Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Industrial Era Philadelphia” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3265645.
Schreiter, Mark A., “Monopolizing the Wild: A History of the Outfitting Industry in Idaho’s River of No Return Backcountry” (University of Idaho, 2007). Order No. DA3266853.
Troost, William Frank, “Accomplishment and Abandonment: A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau Schools” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3269641.
Van Horn, Patrick Grady, “The Central Money Market during the Great Contraction of 1929 to 1932: The Behavior of Banks in New York City” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3273868.
Hoig, Stan, The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 337 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4347-5.)
Nolan, Peter, Capitalism and Freedom: The Contradictory Character of Globalisation. (New York: Anthem, 2007. xii, 345 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-1-84331-280-2.)
Samson, Daniel, The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. x, 432 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-7735-3353-0.)
Stronge, William B., The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xxiv, 334 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3201-6.)
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