“A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private”: The Post Office, the Business of Printing, and the American Revolution
in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
December 2010; published online December 2010.
Journal Article. Subjects: business history. 17078 words.
This essay argues that American printers motivated by a deep commercial interest in fast and effective communication worked to overturn the British imperial postal service in 1774 and 1775. Printers...
A. D. Morrison-Low. Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution
in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
December 2008; published online November 2008.
Journal Article. Subjects: business history. 764 words.
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. Hotel: An American History
in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
December 2008; published online November 2008.
Journal Article. Subjects: business history. 1844 words.
. A Rough Beginning
in George Washington and the Art of Business
January 2008; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: business history. 12040 words.
This chapter discusses the tough beginning George Washington had in organizing a revolution and its relevance to business leadership. Though Washington was a loyal subject of the crown, he had doubts...
Abstracts of 2002 Conference Papers
in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
December 2002; published online December 2002.
Journal Article. Subjects: business history. 0 words.
An Acceptable Level of Death
in Magic Mineral to Killer Dust
March 2001; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: business history. 9117 words.
The asbestos experience demonstrates starkly the political and social problems involved in any revamping of health and safety laws, compensation payments, and medical surveillance. Occupational...
The Accidental Business Historian
in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
December 2007; published online November 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: business history. 5356 words.
Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the “Affluent Society,” 1945–1995
in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
December 2012; published online September 2012.
Journal Article. Subjects: business history. 7569 words.
Accounting for Taste examines the history of the US Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of markets through labels as a form of public–private infrastructure, built through the ceaseless work...
The Activities of Japanese Banks in Interwar Financial Centres: The Cases of the Yokohama Specie Bank’s Offices in London and New York
in The Origins of International Banking in Asia
August 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: business history. 8842 words.
The activities of YSB in the inter-war years are explored in this chapter. It compares and contrasts the position before and after the First World War through a careful examination of the flows of...
The Activities of the Yokohama Specie Bank in the Foreign Trade Financing Operations for Raw Cotton before the First World War
in The Origins of International Banking in Asia
August 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: business history. 9768 words.
The way that the Yokohama Specie Bank challenged the established British banks in Asia before the First World War is examined in this chapter. The focus is on the finance of the cotton and silk...