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Roger Horowitz opens Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste,Technology, Transformation with the observation that Americais a meat-eating nation. Throughout his narrative, he examinesthe forces that allow so much meatsix to eight ouncesper person per dayto satiate Americans appetite.The central questions driving Horowitzs analysis are(a) what is the relationship between producing and consuminga product and (b) how does the nature of the good affect thisrelationship? In 相似文献
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In this pioneering study Christopher A. Reed addresses majorissues concerning the modernization of Chinese printing andpublishing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The books most significant contribution is its focuson technology and business organizations. While the historyof print and publishing in China has drawn enthusiastic attentionfrom scholars over the last decade, Reeds work breaksnew ground by studying the cultural hardware behind the writtenwordprinting machines and publishing businesses. Previoushistorical and literary approaches preoccupied with 相似文献
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Robber Baron, John Franchs biography of Charles TysonYerkes, provides a fascinating window into the workings of laissez-fairecapitalism. Yerkes, one of the most notorious self-made menof nineteenth-century America, embodied the drive, avarice,and unscrupulousness of his agetaking each to its limits.Robber Baron is an academic work that should appeal to a wideraudience. Yerkess dealings are fascinating: the samemen did business with him time after time as they tried to getthe 相似文献
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It is paradoxical that the United States, a nation so recentlytriumphant in the Cold War, should be so gripped by anxietyabout its economic future. A burgeoning national debt and ayawning current account deficit, among other pressures, obligeAmericans to question howand ifthe next one hundredyears will bring another "American Century." Into this debatesteps longtime Washington insider Kent H. Hughes, who sets outwith the ambitious agenda of considering "Americas economicfuture and its economic past" while seeking to define a 相似文献
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A curious blend of business and intellectual history, with anemphasis on the latter, Michael Augspurgers An Economyof Abundant Beauty offers a reading of Fortune magazine fromits founding in 1930 through the election of Dwight D. Eisenhowerin 1952. Distancing himself from other observers of the publicationwho have interpreted Fortunes heavy coverage of highculture and aesthetics during the 1930s alongside more prosaicbusiness news as the result of a distinct split between a progressivestaff of writers, including James Agee and Archibald MacLeish,and more conservative editors and publisher Henry Luce, Augspurgerclaims to discern a 相似文献
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Elisabeth Köll has written more than a book about ZhangJian (18531926), a pioneer of modern business in China.This is an important study of enterprise organization, managementpractice, and the means by which Zhangs Dasheng enterprisegroup changed the political economy of provincial Nantong, aYangzi River city near Shanghai. The author is focused firstlyon control and accountability in the management of the enterpriseand secondly on the institutional transfer"the interpretation,adaptation and application" (p. 4)of Western corporatestructures, such as the limited liability firm, to the Chinesebusiness 相似文献
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Over the past ten years a large, diverse, and increasingly sophisticatedliterature has emerged to explain the declineindeed thedeathof liberalism and the rise of the New Right to politicaldominance. Jarol Manheim argues that the death knell for liberalismand the left has been rung too soon. While conservatism currentlyis the dominant American ideology, Biz-War contends that itfaces a real threat from a reinvigorated left now known by anew, less pejorative name, the Progressive movement. Manheims 相似文献
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Labor unions in formerly communist societies have gone, in justfifteen years, from being large and sometimes very powerfulorganizationsthink of Polands Solidaritytobeing much smaller and weaker organizations. In discussing thisweakness, Paul Kubicek notes the irony that workers in communistsocieties "were able to organize to help overthrow a systemthat purportedly ruled in their name. However, they are poorlypoised to do battle against governments and policies that makelittle pretense to serve their interests" 相似文献
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Rationality, efficiency, meritocracy, productivity, innovation,professionalism: the people who have built, operated, and championedAmerican corporations have claimed these goals and means inorder to explain how and why limited liability firms evolvedin the United States. Such powerful constructions of ideasnoless than of steelhave seduced generations of analystsand citizens into accepting once contested corporate forms asthe inevitable outcomes of irresistible economic processes. The great achievements of Constructing Corporate America liein its compelling demonstrations that U.S. corporationsforms, functions, and discourses evolvedand still changeasproducts of their 相似文献
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It took a tsunami at the end of 2004 to alert the world to whatErik Gilbert could have told us well in advancethat theIndian Oceans edge and the people on it are intimatelyintertwined. Building from a rich grounding in one particularplace, Gilbert tells the story of the intersections betweenthe world of dhows and British colonial economic policies inthe Zanzibar islands. Zanzibar today is a semi-autonomous ifcantankerous partner with the former Tanganyika 相似文献
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Motherhood imposes a birth of sorts for the women involved,according to the various authors in this exceptionally wellintegrated and provocative volume of essays. Women are rebornto a new status of mother and simultaneously asa new kind of consumer of goodsgoods in the form of services,consumer products, and even of babies. This volume weds thestudy of consumerism to the anthropological study of motherhoodand represents a genuine contribution to an array of fields,including 相似文献
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Laura Hein begins this engaged and original study by notingthe greater economic sophistication of Japanese than of Americanstodayand one need only browse the extensive popular economicssection of any Japanese bookstore or look at the use of economiccharts and statistics in Japanese print and television newsto see that this is so. To achieve national economic literacywas a major goal of the tight-knit cohort of progressive economistswho are the subject of Heins book. Why then, 相似文献
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Julie Hesslers work is the first comprehensive historyof the first thirty-five years of Soviet trade written afterthe opening of the Soviet Unions archives following thatnations collapse. It will, without doubt, become a standardwork of reference. Hessler gives due credit to the Soviet historianG. A. Dikhtiars three-volume work on Russian and Soviettrade published in the 1960s (in Russian). Despite the booksobvious ideological overtones, it deserves to be read alongsideHesslers work. Hesslers 相似文献
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In Coal and Culture William Condee examines Appalachian small-towntheaters built between the 1860s and 1930s that appropriatedthe high-culture term opera house for spaces presentingdiverse activities from high school graduations to travelingtheatrical troupes. The title opera house, ratherthan theater, conveyed an aura of culture, refinement,and acceptability in an era when theater was sometimes regardedas having questionable morals. Opera house soundedgrand, but many structures were modest buildings whose facadesdiffered little from 相似文献
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Elvinss book is part of a growing body of historicalscholarship that interrogates the lived experience of consumersociety in the twentieth-century United States. Beginning whereWilliam Leachs Land of Desire (1993) left off, Elvinsseeks to complicate "top-down" narratives of the homogenizationof American consumer culture into a national mass market. Takingher cue from Lizabeth Cohens early work on consumptionin Chicago, Elvins examines consumption on the local level in 相似文献
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In this collection of concisely argued essays, Robert C. Allenreexamines several important questions familiar to anyone interestedin Soviet history: the hypothetical development of Russia inthe absence of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; the standing ofRussias and the Soviet Unions economic and demographicdevelopment in relation to other countries; the controversysurrounding the strategy for economic development after therevolution; the reasons for Stalins rapid industrializationand the role of the agricultural sector in it; and 相似文献
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Robin Pearsons Insuring the Industrial Revolution providesa richly detailed account of the British fire insurance industrythrough the mid-nineteenth century. Whereas most previous accountshave focused on single companies, Pearsons study encompassesthe entire industry of London and provincial firms and seeksto place the industry within the larger context of British economichistory. British economic historians have long overlooked the contributionof insurance, and service industries in general, to the nationseconomic 相似文献
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Based on his doctoral dissertation, Jean-Claude Daumassbook on the economics of nineteenth-century wool manufactureis a sound, workmanlike, and well-organized exposition. Withmany books already detailing various sectors of the industry,from the sheeps back to the consumers closet,the question arises why another synthetic study was needed.Daumass rationale is that while the general contoursof the industry are well known, the variegated nature of individualwool centers has been glossed over. Like the industrial 相似文献
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In recent years, revising or amending Alfred D. Chandlersthesis on the rise of large-scale business enterprises has becomean industry unto itself. A decade ago, the most significantchallenges to Chandlers visible hand appeared to comefrom those who espoused both the contemporary and the historicalvirtues of flexible specialization. More recently, it appearsthat advocates of the family firm have begun to stake theirclaim to a part of Chandlers sizable inheritance. However,just as the introduction of flexibility into the historicalliterature reflected a particular 相似文献
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The advertising extract, which is this books first sentence,reads "Leviathans represents a path-breaking effort to lookat multinational corporations in the round, emphasizing especiallytheir scope, history, development, culture and social implication,and governance problems" (p. i). Given the appropriately globalprestige of the editors and of several of the chaptersauthors, ones curiosity is unavoidably piqued. Whilefew readers will ultimately judge the book to be path-breaking,many will welcome its contribution to 相似文献