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  • Editors’ Note

  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 92 / Issue 1 / Spring 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 May 2018, p. 1
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    Spring 2018
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  • Industrial Manifest Destiny: American Firearms Manufacturing and Antebellum Expansion

  • Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 92 / Issue 1 / Spring 2018
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    04 May 2018, pp. 57-83
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  • The years surrounding the origins of the term “Manifest Destiny” were a transitional period in the history of industrialization. Historians have done much to analyze the impact of major technological shifts on business structure and management, and to connect eastern markets and westward expansion. They have paid less attention, however, to the relationship among continental geopolitics, industrial development, and frontier warfare. This article uses War Department papers, congressional reports, and manufacturers’ records to examine how the arms industry developed in response to military conflict on the frontier. As public and private manufacturers altered production methods, product features, and their relationships to one another, they contributed to the industrial developments of the mid-nineteenth century.

  • Change and Continuity at IBM: Key Themes in Histories of IBM

  • James W. Cortada
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 92 / Issue 1 / Spring 2018
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    26 March 2018, pp. 117-148
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  • IBM has been the subject of considerable study by historians, economists, business management professors, and journalists. This essay surveys the various writings on the company, placing their contributions in a roughly chronological account of the company's history, from its early days in tabulating through to its dominance of global markets in computing. The essay includes well-known studies of IBM in addition to more obscure accounts. It emphasizes the need to consider the company's culture along with its technological and managerial changes in order to grasp the reasons for its longevity.

A Business History of India
  • Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700
  • Tirthankar Roy
  • Published online:
    20 March 2018
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    05 April 2018
  • In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history shows that capital was relatively expensive. How, then, did capitalism flourish in the region? How did companies and entrepreneurs deal with the shortage of key resources? Has there been a common pattern in responses to these issues over the centuries? Through detailed case studies of firms, entrepreneurs, and business commodities, Tirthankar Roy answers these questions. Roy bridges the approaches of business and economic history, illustrating the development of a distinctive regional capitalism. On each occasion of growth, connections with the global economy helped firms and entrepreneurs better manage risks. Making these deep connections between India's economic past and present shows why history matters in its remaking of capitalism today.

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