We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of BHR (Volume 97, Issue 2) is now available online. This special issue, guest-edited by Marlous van Waijenburg and Anne Ruderman, explores themes related to the history of business, capitalism, and slavery. All articles and the research note are available free online for a limited time.
On September 22, 2022, the BHC held its second annual mid-year meeting. The theme of the virtual event was “Method and Madness: Historical Interpretation in a New Age of Extremes.” One-hundred, twenty-six people participated, 41 percent of whom were emerging scholars and 55 percent of whom were based outside the United States.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a collection of peer-reviewed essays based on the conference. The essays all touch of the value of play and playfulness in research methods – especially during historical moments of uncertainty and transformation. They are grouped into four themes: new sources of play, seeing anew, sensing new connections, and entertaining new representations. A list of the essays can be found below and they are all freely available until September and can be found here.
Bamforth, Catherine Jill, and Malcolm Abbott. “Comparing Private and Public Approaches to State Megaproject Implementation: The R100-R101 Airship Development Case Study.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 131–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1806823.
David, Geraldine, Christian Huemer, and Kim Oosterlinck. “Art Dealers’ Inventory Strategy: The Case of Goupil, Boussod & Valadon from 1860 to 1914.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 24–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1832083.
Fletcher, Marie M. “Death and Taxes: Estate Duty – a Neglected Factor in Changes to British Business Structure after World War Two.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 187–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1892642.
Herrero, Marta, and Thomas R. Buckley. “Collaborating Profitably? The Fundraising Practices of the Contemporary Art Society, 1919–1939.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1805436.
Maréchaux, Benoît. “Business Organisation in the Mediterranean Sea: Genoese Galley Entrepreneurs in the Service of the Spanish Empire (Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries).” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 56–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1798933.
[book review] Martínez-Rodríguez, Susana. “Gendered Capitalism. Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico (1850–1940).” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 210–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1995173.
[book review] Masrani, Swapnesh. “Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 212–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1995179.
[book review] Raman, Alka. “The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 214–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.2001055.
Romano, Maurizio. “‘The Originator of Eni’s Ideas’. Marcello Boldrini at the Top of Agip/Eni (1948–1967).” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 88–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1789101.
Wegenschimmel, Peter, and Andrew Hodges. “The Embeddedness of ‘Public’ Enterprises: The Case of the Gdynia (Poland) and Uljanik (Croatia) Shipyards.” Business History 65, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 113–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1796975.
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This issue includes five book reviews, six research articles, and three of them are open access.
TOC 64-8 2022; Key terms: nuclear energy, varieties of capitalism, Cold War, pulp and paper industry, Finland, Spain, multinationals, Italy, entrepreneurial state, technology, Great Britain, West Germany.
[book review] Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo. “The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1564–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1946221.
[book review] Bonin, Hubert. “China Bound. John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1560–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1941909.
[book review] Davis, James. “Compassionate Capitalism: Business and Community in Medieval England.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1556–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1940544.
De la Torre, Joseba, Mar Rubio-Varas, Esther M. Sánchez-Sánchez, and Gloria Sanz Lafuente. “Nuclear Engineering and Technology Transfer: The Spanish Strategies to Deal with US, French and German Nuclear Manufacturers, 1955–1985.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1435–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1810239.
Jensen-Eriksen, Niklas. “Looking for Cheap and Abundant Power: Business, Government and Nuclear Energy in Finland.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1413–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1772761.
MacKenzie, Niall G., Stephen Knox, and Matthew Hannon. “Fast Breeder Reactor Technology and the Entrepreneurial State in the UK.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1494–1509. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1809653.
Mascolo, Rita. “Tennessee Valley in Southern Italy: How the ENSI Project Was the First and Only World Bank Loan for Nuclear Power.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1460–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1819984.
[book review] Merrett, David. “Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1558–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1941527.
[book review] Ravalli, Richard. “American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1554–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1940471.
Roitto, Matti, Pasi Nevalainen, and Miina Kaarkoski. “Fuel for Commercial Politics: The Nucleus of Early Commercial Proliferation of Atomic Energy in Three Acts.” Business History 64, no. 8 (November 17, 2022): 1510–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1845316. Rubio-Varas, M., J. De la Torre, and
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