Business History, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2011)

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Strapping, as well as numerate: Occupational identity, masculinity and the aesthetics of nineteenth-century banking
Diane van den Broek
Pages: 289-301
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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The English cotton spinning industry, 1780–1840, as revealed in the columns of the London Gazette
Peter M. Solar & John S. Lyons
Pages: 302-323
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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‘A Poll Tax on wheels’: Might the move to privatise rail in Britain have failed?
Robert Jupe
Pages: 324-343
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
Abstractfor‘A Poll Tax on wheels’: Might the move to privatise rail in Britain have failed? | Full Text | References | PDF (147.7 KB)
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Italian fashion business: Achievements and challenges (1970s–2000s)
Elisabetta Merlo
Pages: 344-362
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Path dependence, change and the emergence of the first joint-stock companies
Nicholas Kyriazis & Theodore Metaxas
Pages: 363-374
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Foreign direct investment in the Ottoman Empire: Attitudes and political risk
V. Necla Geyikdagi & M. Yasar Geyikdagi
Pages: 375-400
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Varieties of business history: Subject and methods for the twenty-first century
Christopher Kobrak & Andrea Schneider
Pages: 401-424
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy
Charles Harvey, Mairi Maclean, Jillian Gordon & Eleanor Shaw
Pages: 425-450
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Book reviews

Book Review
The rise and fall of great companies: Courtaulds and the reshaping of the man-made fibres industry
David Higgins
Pages: 451-452
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Lyndall Urwick, management pioneer: a biography
Alistair Mutch
Pages: 452-453
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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The East India Company's London workers: management of the warehouse labourers, 1800–1858
Tony Webster
Pages: 454-455
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Les entreprises et l'outre-mer Français pendant la seconde guerre mondiale
Alessandro Stanziani
Pages: 455-456
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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La croissance en économie ouverte, XVIIe–XXIe siècle. Hommages à Jean-Charles Asselain
Laure Quennouelle-Corre
Pages: 457-458
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Cultures et médias sous l'Occupation, des entreprises dans la France de Vichy
Dominique Veillon
Pages: 458-460
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Les comptes de groupe en France (1929–1985) – origines, enjeux et pratiques de la consolidation des comptes
Rahma Chekkar
Pages: 460-461
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Forms of enterprise in 20th century Italy. Boundaries, structures and strategies
Luciano Ciravegna
Pages: 462-463
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Nationalisme économique et industrialisation. L'expérience des pays de l'Est (1789–1939)
Hubert Bonin
Pages: 463-465
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Knights of the razor: black barbers in slavery and freedom
Julie Willett
Pages: 463-465
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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El Puerto del Acero: historia de la Siderurgia de Sagunto (1900–1984)
Jesús M. Valdaliso
Pages: 465-467
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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In hock: pawning in America from independence through the Great Depression
Josh Lauer
Pages: 469-470
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history
Bianca Murillo
Pages: 470-472
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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From Betamax to Blockbuster: video stores and the invention of movies on video
Gerben Bakker
Pages: 472-474
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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Sustainable prosperity in the new economy? Business organization and high-tech employment in the United States
Chris Kobrak
Pages: 474-476
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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The gold standard at the turn of the century: rising powers, global money, and the age of empire
Derek H. Aldcroft
Pages: 476-477
Published online: 22 Jun 2011
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