Business History Review: Volume 46 - Issue 4

The New Deal and the “Broker State:” A Review of the Recent Scholarly Literature
John Braeman
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11 June 2012, pp. 409-429
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Professor Braeman evaluates historians' current assessment of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, finding a new consensus emerging among scholars of that important era in American history.

The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century: A Comment on the Williams Thesis *
Stanley L. Engerman
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11 June 2012, pp. 430-443
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Professor Engerman constructs estimates of relevant data in order to test the assertion that profits from the slave trade provided the capital which financed the Industrial Revolution in England.

Organization for Foreign Trade Expansion in the Mississippi Valley, 1900–1920 *
Burton I. Kaufman
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11 June 2012, pp. 444-465
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Recent historians of the early twentieth century United States have called attention to the growing nationalization of American life, as well as to the importance of an eastern corporate elite in shaping foreign policy during that period. This study indicates the residual strength of the regional impulse and offers a counterweight to the national and eastern emphasis of those historians.

Early Cost Accounting for Internal Management Control: Lyman Mills in the 1850's *
H. Thomas Johnson
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11 June 2012, pp. 466-474
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This study of the accounting records of a mid-nineteenth-century New England textile enterprise sheds new light on the emergence of modern cost accounting as a specialized tool of management.

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11 June 2012, pp. 475-479
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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950–1350. By Robert S. Lopez. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall Inc., 1971. Pp xi + 177. $5.95.
Herman van der Wee
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11 June 2012, pp. 480-481
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Les Metaux Precieux et la Balance des Payements du Proche-Orient a la Basse Epoque. By Eliyahu Ashtor. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1971. Pp. 127.
Frank Spooner
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11 June 2012, p. 482
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The Origins of Capitalism in Russia: Industry and Progress in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Joseph T. Fuhrmann. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1972. Pp. xiii + 376. $12.50.
John P. McKay
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11 June 2012, pp. 483-484
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Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. By Richard S. Dunn. Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture), 1972. Pp. xx + 359. $11.95.
Stanley Engerman
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11 June 2012, pp. 484-486
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The Gladstones: A Family Biography, 1764–1851. By S. G. Checkland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 448. $16.00
Asa Briggs
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11 June 2012, pp. 486-487
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The Wool Textile Industry in Great Britain. Edited by J. Geraint Jenkins. London and Boston, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. Pp. xvi + 309. $33.25.
David J. Jeremy
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11 June 2012, pp. 487-489
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The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries, 1788–1821. By D. R. Hainsworth. Sydney, Cassell, 1971. Pp. xiii + 264. $15.50.
W. A. Sinclair
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11 June 2012, pp. 489-490
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La Modernisation des Charbonnages Liegeois Pendant la Premiere Moitie du XIXe Siecle: Techniques D'Exploitation. By N. Caulier-Mathy. Paris, Société d'Edition “Les Belles Lettres,”1971. Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fascicule CXCII. Pp. 308.
Charles E. Freedeman
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11 June 2012, pp. 490-491
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The French Economy, 1913–39: The History of a Decline. By Tom Kemp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1972. Pp. vii + 183. $8.95
Hubert Sales
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11 June 2012, pp. 492-493
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Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case. By Stanley I. Kutler. Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1971, Pp. 191. $5.95.
G. Heberton Evans, Jr.
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11 June 2012, pp. 493-494
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Mills of Yesteryear. By A. T. Jackson. El Paso, Texas, Texas Western Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 103. $5.00.
Joe B. Frantz
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11 June 2012, pp. 494-495
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Wea Creek to El Dorado: Oil in Kansas, 1860–1920. By Francis W. Schruben. Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Press, 1972. Pp. x + 176. $8.00.
Paul H. Giddens
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11 June 2012, pp. 495-497
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Colonel Morgan Jones: Grand Old Man of Texas Railroading. By Vernon Gladden Spence. Norman, Ok., University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Pp. xix + 240. $7.95.
Keith L. Bryant, Jr.
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11 June 2012, pp. 497-498
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Tidewater Ice of the Kennebec River. By Jennie G. Everson. Freeport, Maine, published for the Maine State Museum by the Bond Wheelwright Co., 1970. Pp. xiv + 241. $9.95.
Richard O. Cummings
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11 June 2012, pp. 498-499
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The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889–1969. By Elliot Marple and Bruce H. Olson. Palo Alto, Calif., Pacific Books, 1972. Pp. x + 277. $10.00.
Herman E. Krooss
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11 June 2012, pp. 499-501
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The New Deal and the “Broker State:” A Review of the Recent Scholarly Literature

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The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century: A Comment on the Williams Thesis *

Organization for Foreign Trade Expansion in the Mississippi Valley, 1900–1920 *

Early Cost Accounting for Internal Management Control: Lyman Mills in the 1850's *

The Editor's Corner

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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950–1350. By Robert S. Lopez. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall Inc., 1971. Pp xi + 177. $5.95.

Les Metaux Precieux et la Balance des Payements du Proche-Orient a la Basse Epoque. By Eliyahu Ashtor. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1971. Pp. 127.

The Origins of Capitalism in Russia: Industry and Progress in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Joseph T. Fuhrmann. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1972. Pp. xiii + 376. $12.50.

Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. By Richard S. Dunn. Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture), 1972. Pp. xx + 359. $11.95.

The Gladstones: A Family Biography, 1764–1851. By S. G. Checkland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 448. $16.00

The Wool Textile Industry in Great Britain. Edited by J. Geraint Jenkins. London and Boston, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. Pp. xvi + 309. $33.25.

The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries, 1788–1821. By D. R. Hainsworth. Sydney, Cassell, 1971. Pp. xiii + 264. $15.50.

La Modernisation des Charbonnages Liegeois Pendant la Premiere Moitie du XIXe Siecle: Techniques D'Exploitation. By N. Caulier-Mathy. Paris, Société d'Edition “Les Belles Lettres,”1971. Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fascicule CXCII. Pp. 308.

The French Economy, 1913–39: The History of a Decline. By Tom Kemp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1972. Pp. vii + 183. $8.95

Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case. By Stanley I. Kutler. Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1971, Pp. 191. $5.95.

Mills of Yesteryear. By A. T. Jackson. El Paso, Texas, Texas Western Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 103. $5.00.

Wea Creek to El Dorado: Oil in Kansas, 1860–1920. By Francis W. Schruben. Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Press, 1972. Pp. x + 176. $8.00.

Colonel Morgan Jones: Grand Old Man of Texas Railroading. By Vernon Gladden Spence. Norman, Ok., University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Pp. xix + 240. $7.95.

Tidewater Ice of the Kennebec River. By Jennie G. Everson. Freeport, Maine, published for the Maine State Museum by the Bond Wheelwright Co., 1970. Pp. xiv + 241. $9.95.

The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889–1969. By Elliot Marple and Bruce H. Olson. Palo Alto, Calif., Pacific Books, 1972. Pp. x + 277. $10.00.

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