The 2011 edition of BEH On-Line, a series devoted to edited essays from the Business History Conference annual meetings, is now available online:
http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2011/beh2011.html
Here is the Table of Contents for 2011.
Stephen B. Adams
Their Minds Will Follow: Big Business and California Higher Education, 1954-1960
James L. Baughman
Henry R. Luce and the Business of Journalism
William R. Childs
Henry Luce and Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture
Amy M. Hay
Dow Chemical vs. “Coercive Utopians”: Constructing the Contested Ground of Science and Government Regulation in 1970s America
William Lazonick and Edward March
The Rise and Demise of Lucent Technologies
Cinzia Lorandini
The Financing of SMEs and the Role of Knowledge: Some Evidence from Trentino-South Tyrol, 1950s-1990s
Rachel Maines
Engineering Standards as Collaborative Projects: Asbestos in the Table of Clearances
Shigehiro Nishimura
International Patent Control and Transfer of Knowledge: The United States and Japan before World War II
Laura D. Phillips
The Economics and Ideology of American Fair Trade: Louis Brandeis and Open Price Associations, 1911-1919
Lydia Redman
Knowledge Is Power? Victorian and Edwardian Employers and the Rhetoric of Expertise
Daniel L. Rust
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport’s Alternative W-lW: A Case Study
Minoru Shimamoto
R&D Strategy and Knowledge Creation in Japanese Chemical Firms, 1980-2010
Hiroshi Shimizu and Satoshi Kudo
How Well Does Knowledge Travel? The Transition from Energy to Commercial Application of Laser Diode Fabrication Technology
Marc Stern
Real or Rogue Charity? Private Health Clubs vs. the YMCA, 1970-2010
Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Louis Galambos
The German Connection: Merck and the Flow of Knowledge from Germany to the United States, 1880-1930
Ross Thomson
Did the Telegraph Lead Electrification? Industry and Science in American Innovation
Robert E. Wright
Governance and the Success of U.S. Community Banks, 1790-2010: Mutual Savings Banks, Local Commercial Banks, and the Merchants (National) Bank of New Bedford, Massachusetts
Alexia Yates
Developing Knowledge, the Knowledge of Development: Real Estate Speculators and Brokers in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
BEH On-Line is the successor publication of the BHC’s Business and
Economic History, print collections of papers from the annual meetings. The complete run of Business and Economic History, 1962-1999, can be accessed from the BHC website, and includes a cumulative index as well. See http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/aboutbeh.html
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