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Recent Trends in Business History Research: Capitalism, Democracy, and Innovation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2017

WALTER A. FRIEDMAN
WALTER A. FRIEDMAN*
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Walter A. Friedman is director of the Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School. He is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013). E-mail: [email protected]
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 748 - 771
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Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. London: Penguin, 2014.Google Scholar
Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bellow, Saul. There is Simply too Much to Think About. New York: Penguin Books, 2015.Google Scholar
Berlin, Leslie. The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. New York: Oxford, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boston, Michael B. The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington. Gainesville: Gainesville University Press of Florida, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cannadine, David. Mellon: An American Life. New York: Vintage, 2006.Google Scholar
Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy; or, Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. New York: C. Scriber & Sons, 1886.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1990.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. First published 1962.Google Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business. Edited and introduced by McCraw, Thomas K. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1988.Google Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1977.Google Scholar
Coopersmith, Jonathan. Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1992.Google Scholar
Fisher, Melissa S. Wall Street Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2012.Google Scholar
Fligstein, Neil. The Transformation of Corporate Control. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Freeland, Robert F. The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Friedman, Walter. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Galambos, Louis, and Sewell, Jane Eliot. Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Gamber, Wendy. The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930. (Women in American History.) Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Gertner, Jon. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. New York: Penguin Books, 2013.Google Scholar
Gordon, Robert. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gudis, Catherine. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2005.Google Scholar
Henderson, Alexa Benson. Atlanta Life Insurance: Guardians of Black Economic Dignity. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.Google Scholar
John, Richard. Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, Geoffrey. Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kloppenberg, James. Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Koehn, Nancy F. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Engendering Business. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States New York: Twayne, 1998.Google Scholar
Laird, Pamela. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laird, Pamela. Pull: Network and Success Since Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Novak, William J., eds. Corporations and American Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leach, William R. Land of Desire: Merchants, Powers, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York: Vintage, 1994.Google Scholar
Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1995.Google Scholar
Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Lewis, Susan Ingalls. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Longstreth, Richard. The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
McCraw, Thomas K. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalist, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Moss, David. Democracy: A Case Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Mozingo, Louise A. Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Olegario, Rowena. The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade against the New Deal New York: Norton, 2009.Google Scholar
Rosenthal, Caitlin. Accounting for Slavery: Mastery, Management, and American Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.Google Scholar
Roy, William G. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sandage, Scott. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Saxenian, AnnaLee. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Scranton, Philip. Endless Novelty. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Spears, Timothy B. 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1995.Google Scholar
Tedlow, Richard. New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America. New York: Basic Books, 1990.Google Scholar
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Weisberg, Gabriel, and McIntosh, DeCourcey. Collecting in the Gilded Age: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890–1910. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.Google Scholar
White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinental’s and the Making of Modern America. New York: Norton, 2011.Google Scholar
Yeager, Mary A., ed. Women in Business. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999.Google Scholar
Akcigit, Ufuk, Grigsby, John, and Nicholas, Tom. “Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity.” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 107, no. 5 (May 2017): 327–331.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beckert, Sven. “History of American Capitalism.” In American History Now, edited by Foner, Eric and McGirr, Lisa, 314–335. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. “The Competitive Performance of U.S. Industrial Enterprises Since the Second World War.” Business History Review 68, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 1–72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Hilt, Eric. “Economic History, Historical Analysis, and the ‘New History’ of Capitalism.” Journal of Economic History 77, no. 2 (June 2017): 511–536.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hintz, Eric. “The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Investors, 1900–1950.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Ideologies and Innovations: Gender Dimensions of Business History.” Business and Economic History 20 (1991): 45–51.Google Scholar
Lamoreaux, Naomi, Sokoloff, Kenneth L., and Sutthisphisal, Dhanoos. “Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in U.S. History.” Business History Review 87 (Spring 2013): 3–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCraw, Thomas K. “Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement.” Business History Review 82, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 207–226.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mihm, Stephen. Review of Railroaded: The Transcontinental’s and the Making of Modern America , by White, Richard. Business History Review 87, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 787–795.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moser, Petra. “Innovation without Patents: Evidence from World’s Fairs.” Journal of Law and Economics 55, no. 1 (February 2012): 43–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moser, Petra, and Nicholas, Tom. “Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation.” Journal of Industrial Economics 61, no. 3 (2013): 763–788.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Scranton, Philip. “Diversity in Diversity: Flexible Production and American Industrialization, 1880–1930.” Business History Review 65, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 27–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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