Vol. 24 (2006): Essays in Economic & Business History

The Journal of the Economic & Business Historical Society

Published: 2006-06-30

Front Matter

• Covers, Officers, Trustees and Awards

  David O. Whitten (ed.)

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• Title Page and Table of Contents

  David O. Whitten (ed.)

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Articles

• Wives, Widows and Singlewomen: Working Women at London's Eighteenth Century Fairs Winner of the James Soltow Award for 2006

  Anne Wohlcke

  1-15

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• The Cost of Credibility: The Company of General Farms and Fiscal Stagnation in Eighteenth-Century France

  Noel D. Johnson

  16-28

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• Slavery and Civil Law in the Antebellum South: Two Case Studies

  Harvey Gresham Hudspeth

  29-33

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• The Silent Partner: Mary Mehagan Hill and the Great Northern Railway

  Christiane Diehl Taylor

  34-47

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• Judson Churchill Welliver, Wordsmith

  Greg A. Phelps, D. Gene Pace

  48-55

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• A Reconsideration of the Revenue Act of 1932

  David A. Zalewski

  56-68

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• Reversal of Fortune: The Rockefellers and the Decline of Business Support for Prohibition

  Ranjit S. Dighe

  69-88

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• Lessons in Crisis Management from the 1929 Crash

  Janice M. Traflet

  89-101

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• From the Lewis and Clark Expedition to IBM, Dell, and Southwest Airlines: Teaching History and Leadership to Business Students

  Jeffrey J. Matthews

  102-117

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• New Evidence on Race Discrimination Under “Separate But Equal”

  Bradley A. Hansen, Mary Eschelbach Hansen

  120-132

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• A Brave New World Of Burials: The Business of Idiosyncratic Body Disposal in the Twenty-First Century

  David O. Whitten

  133-148

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