Editor

Janice Traflet,  Bucknell

University

 

Associate Editor

Stephanie Crofton

High Point University

 

Associate Editor

Neil Forbes

Coventry University

 

Associate Editor

Erik Benson, Cornerstone

University

 

Associate Editor

Daniel Giedeman

Grand Valley State

University

 

Assistants to the Editor

Meghan Marks

Angela Fritzges

 

 

 

 

 

 

Essays In Economic & Business History: The Journal of the Economic & Business historical Society 

 

 

Guidelines for Papers

 

 

 

VOLUME 29

 

 

Essays in Economic and Business History

 

 

 

Volume XXIX, 2011

 

 

 

 

EDITOR

 

Janice Traflet

Bucknell University

 

Associate Editor

Stephanie Crofton

High Point University

 

Associate Editor

Neil Forbes

Coventry University

 

Associate Editor

Erik Benson

Cornerstone University

 

Associate Editor

Daniel Giedeman

Grand Valley State University

 

 

 

   

 

Published by Bucknell University Press

 

Copyright © 2011 Economic and Business Historical Society

All rights reserved. This publication, or parts thereof, may not be

reproduced in any form by photographic, electrostatic, mechanical,

or any other method, for any use, including information storage and

retrieval, without written permission from the publisher.

 

ISSN 0896-226X

 

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-91616

HC12.E27

 

Printed in the U.S.A. by Integrated Book Technology

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

5

GOING GLOBAL - ACTING LOCAL: SIEMENS ON THE CHINESE ELECTRICAL MARKET, 1904-1937

Mathias Mutz

 

23

ARMAMENTS FIRMS, THE STATE PROCUREMENT SYSTEM, AND THE NAVAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN EDWARDIAN BRITAIN

Roger Lloyd-Jones and Myrddin John Lewis

 

41

SAVING PRIVATE CAPITALISM: THE U.S. BANK HOLIDAY OF 1933

Ranjit Dighe

 

59

"THE GROSSESST AND MOST UNJUST SPECIES OF FAVORITISM"

COMPETING VIEWS OF REPUBLICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE TARRIFF DEBATES OF 1841 AND 1842

John A. Moore

 

75

A COUNTRY UNDER CONTRACT: EARLY-TUDOR ENGLAND AND THE GROWTH OF A CREDIT CULTURE

Mark Horowitz

 

87

THE BELGIAN MULTIPLE FOOD RETAILER DELHAIZE LE LION AND ITS CLIENTELE, 1867-1914

Patricia Van den Eeckhout and Peter Scholliers

101

HOLLOW VICTORY: BRITAIN'S PUBLIC DEBT AND THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR

Jari Eloranta and Jeremy Land

 

 

 

 

 

 

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