For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
Published by EH.NET (February 2004) Jason Kaufman, For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 286 pp. $45 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-19-514858-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by David T. Beito, Department of History, University of Alabama. Jason Kaufman is a man on a mission. […]
Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937
Published by EH.NET (December 2003) Susan M. Sterett, Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 222 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8014-3984-1. Reviewed for EH.NET by Joanna Short, Department of Economics, Augustana College In Public Pensions, Susan M. Sterett examines the development of state and […]
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
Published by EH.NET (October 2003) Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, and Jack W. Wilson, A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 259 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8122-3714-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Price Fishback, Department of Economics, University of Arizona. Professors Clark, Craig, and […]
An Economic History of London, 1800-1914
Published by EH.NET (April 2003) ? Michael Ball and David Sunderland, An Economic History of London, 1800-1914. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. x + 470 pp. ?75/$110 (hardback), ISBN: 0-415-24691-1. Reviewed for EH.NET by David R Green, Department of Geography, King’s College, London. Any analysis of the economy of the largest nineteenth-century city in […]
Investing for Middle America: John Elliot Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors
Published by EH.Net (February 2003) Kenneth Lipartito and Carol Heher Peters, Investing for Middle America: John Elliot Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors. (New York: Palgrave for St. Martin’s Press, 2001) pp. X + 268. Reviewed for EH.Net by Douglas Steeples, retired Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of […]
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society
Published by EH.NET (November 2002) ? David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, editors, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xiii + 462 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-472-11240-6; $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-472-08837-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard Lester, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. The […]
The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
Project 2001: Significant Works in Economic History Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. xvii + 356 pp. Review Essay by Winifred B. Rothenberg, Department of Economics, Tufts University. When the Rules Changed: A Twenty-five Year Retrospective on The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 “In short, the […]
The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
Published by EH.NET (February 2000) Masayo Umezawa Duus, The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. (Translated by Beth Cory and adapted by Peter Duus.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiii + 375pp. $55 (cloth), 0-520-20484-0: $18.95 (paper), 0-520-20485-9. Reviewed for EH.NET by Edward D. Beechert, Professor Emeritus of Labor History, University of […]
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
Published by H-Business and EH.Net (January, 1999) Roland Marchand. Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 461 pp. Acknowledgments, illustrations, notes and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-08719-4. Reviewed for H-Business and EH.Net by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University […]