Organization of American Historians Journal of American History

Recent Scholarship

Business and Economics

Andresen, Martin A., “The Effect of North American Trade Liberalization on the Nature of Canadian Trade, 1989–2002,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 36 (Summer 2006), 283–311.

Bronstein, Daniel, “La Cubana City: A Cuban Cigar Manufacturing Community Near Thomasville, Georgia, during the 1890s,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2006), 391–417.

Brown, Alexander, “Accidents, Engineering, and History at nasa, 1967–2003,” in Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, ed. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 377–402. (Washington: nasa, 2006. xii, 659 pp. $25.00, isbn SP-2006-4702.)

Bruce, Kyle, “Henry S. Dennison, Elton Mayo, and Human Relations Historiography,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (May 2006), 177–99.

Burdekin, Richard C. K., “Bondholder Gains from the Annexation of Texas and Implications of the U.S. Bailout,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Oct. 2006), 646–66.

Ceh, Brian, and Jay D. Gatrell, “R&D Production in the United States: Rethinking the Snowbelt–Sunbelt Shift,” Social Science Journal, 43 (no. 4, 2006), 513–27.

Forsyth, Grant D., “Special Interest Protectionism and the Antebellum Woolen Textile Industry,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 65 (Nov. 2006), 1025–58.

Gervais, Pierre, “L’entreprise privée comme privilège d’État: le statut politique des premières compagnies à chartes aux Estats-Unis” (Private enterprise as a state privilege: The political status of the first charter company in the United States), In French.

Gervais, Pierre, “L’impensé du marché. Approches du deéveloppement économique aux Etats-Unis (XVIIIe–XIXe siècles)” (The unthought-of market. Approaches to the economic development of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth century), Revue de Synthése (Paris), 127 (Fall 2006), 299–328. In French.

Grant, James D., and Albert J. Mills, “The Quiet Americans: Formative Context, the Academy of Management Leadership, and the Management Textbook, 1936–1960,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (May 2006), 201–24.

Halbesleben, Jonathon R. B., “The Man Who Won WWII: Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Management of Higgins Industries,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (Aug. 2006), 311–23.

Heffer, Jean, “L’âge classique de la dette publique américaine (1789–1916)” (The classical age of American public debt, 1789–1916), in La dette publique dans l’histoire (Public debt: An historical view), ed. Jean Andreau and Gérard Beaur, 365–92. (Paris: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2006. €35,00, isbn 2-11-094800-0.) In French.

Hochfelder, David, “‘Where the Common People Could Speculate’: The Ticker, Bucket Shops, and the Origins of Popular Participation in Financial Markets, 1880–1920,” Journal of American History, 93 (Sept. 2006), 335–58.

Jolink, Albert, “The Urge to Merge and the American Cotton Oil Company,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (Nov. 2006), 385–99.

Knodell, Jane, “Rethinking the Jacksonian Economy: The Impact of the 1832 Bank Veto on Commercial Banking,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Sept. 2006), 541–74.

Knowles, Anne Kelly, and Richard G. Healey, “Geography, Timing, and Technology: A gis-Based Analysis of Pennsylvania’s Iron Industry, 1825–1875,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Sept. 2006), 608–34.

McKenna, Christopher D., “Writing the Ghost-Writer Back In: Alfred Sloan, Alfred Chandler, John McDonald, and the Intellectual Origins of Corporate Strategy,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (May 2006), 107–26.

O’Brien, William Patrick, “Olam Kantan (Small World): Jewish Traders on the Santa Fe Trail,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Summer 2006), 211–31.

Puschendorf, L. Robert, “Petroleum, Politics, and Prices: Omaha’s Gas War of 1924,” Nebraska History, 87 (Summer 2006), 54–81.

Rondinone, Troy, “The Invasion from Bentonville: Wal-Mart Comes to Connecticut,” Connecticut History, 45 (Fall 2006), 177–200.

Scranton, Philip, “Urgency, Uncertainty, and Innovation: Building Jet Engines in Postwar America,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (May 2006), 127–57.

Shambaugh, Jay C., “An Experiment with Multiple Currencies: The American Monetary System from 1838–60,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Oct. 2006), 609–45.

Shanken, Andrew Michael, “Better Living: Toward a Cultural History of a Business Slogan,” Enterprise & Society, 7 (Sept. 2006), 485–519.

Spector, Bruce, “The Harvard Business Review Goes to War,” Management & Organizational History, 1 (Aug. 2006), 273–95.

Stewart, James I., “Migration to the Agricultural Frontier and Wealth Accumulation, 1860–1870,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Oct. 2006), 547–77.

Traflet, Janice M., “Lessons in Crisis Management from the 1929 Crash,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 24 (2006), 89–101.

Turner, Walter R., “Building the Piedmont Airlines Hub in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1978–1989,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (July 2006), 355–80.

 

Dupont, Brandon, “The Role of Information and Contagion in Banking Instability: Banks and Mortgage Companies in the Panic of 1893” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3196040.

Estes, Rosemary Niner, “Charles Town’s Sons of Liberty: A Closer Look” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3200764.

Kreydatus, Elizabeth A., “Marketing to the ‘Liberated’ Woman: Feminism, Social Change, and Beauty Culture, 1960–2000” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3201116.

Maischak, Lars, “A Cosmopolitan Community: Hanseatic Merchants in the German-American Atlantic of the Nineteenth Century” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3197194.

Marcketti, Sara Beth, “Design Piracy in the United States Women’s Ready-to-Wear Apparel Industry: 1910–1941” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3200443.

Yamamoto, Daisaku, “Beyond Convergence: Regional Income Disparities in the United States and Japan, 1955–2001” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3205254.

 

Andreau, Jean, and Gérard Beaur, eds., La dette publique dans l’histoire (Public debt: An historical view). (Paris: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2006. €35,00, isbn 2-11-094800-0.) In French.

Barjot, Dominique, et al., eds., Industrie et politique en Europe occidentale et aux Estats-Unis, XIXe–Xxa siècles (Industry and politics in Western Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth century). (Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris–Sorbonne, 2006. 477 pp. €26,00, isbn 2-84050-422-7.) In French.

Mohanty, Gail Fowler, Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780–1840. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xii, 272 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-415-97902-1.)

Whitley, Colleen, ed., From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. xiv, 506 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-639-4.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

Recent Issues

Icon Downarrow Full Text

The full text of current issues (1999–present) of the Journal of American History is available to subscribers electronically at the History Cooperative. Back issues are available at JSTOR.

Icon Downarrow Subscribe to the JAH

A subscription to the JAH is one of the many benefits available to members of the Organization of American Historians (oah). To join the oah and receive the JAH, complete and submit a membership application at the oah Web site.

Read more >

Icon Downarrow Purchase a Single Issue

Selected current and back issues of the JAH are available both as single issues and for large quantities, at volume pricing. Please the OAH fulfillment department regarding your order.