Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024351
J. Hutchins
Business history as a differentiated subject is of comparatively recent origin in the American academic scene. It has naturally been most closely associated with collegiate schools of business, and particularly with those offering graduate or semi-graduate programs of instruction. It now seems appropriate to inquire what rôle it plays in such programs, what should be its content, how it should be presented, and what relationship it has to the closely associated fields of economic history, economics, business administration, and public administration
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S000768050002434X
C. J. Kennedy
Business history, as distinct from economic history, is now being taught on the freshman, senior, and graduate levels in a number of colleges and universities. I am to speak only on the problems and challenges of teaching business history on the freshman level, but in this connection I shall mention the desirability of courses for senior and graduate students.
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024302
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Pub Date : 1950-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024314
T. Cochran
The major challenge to historians today is the same whether one's research lies in business history or general history. It is to focus the rapidly growing social knowledge of the mid-twentieth century upon historical materials and to do this mainly by asking new questions of the records, questions that will make history an analytic as well as a descriptive discipline. The historian of business is peculiarly well placed to meet this challenge. He works with the human element in an area that heretofore has been the concern of the oldest, most complex, and least humanistic social theory, economics. That is, by the nature of his materials the historian of business is forced to seek a reconciliation between actual human behavior and the implications of rigorous economic analysis. A similar challenge is offered in harnessing each of the other social sciences to the business historian's task. In so far as he succeeds in remolding these analytical disciplines to fit reality in the sphere of business, he solves the major problems of all historians and all social scientists.
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Pub Date : 1950-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024296
C. Abbott
One of the most striking features of the 19th century was the development of a form of international economy that brought the impressive increases in commerce, prosperity, and standards of living characteristic of that era, and which as a result of two World Wars has so largely disappeared. It was an economy marked, among other things, by the evolution of central banks, the gold standard, the dominant financial position of the London money market, a belief in the sanctity of contracts, expanding markets for both raw materials and manufactured goods, opportunities for large profits, and private business concerns whose credit was often higher than that of the governments to which they owed allegiance. This economic system was also subject to business cycles, periodic unemployment, and fluctuating prices; but these aspects of its operations seem not to have affected men's thinking at the time in so influential a manner as has subsequently been the case. Among the business characters that both contributed to and profited from this stimulating environment was the merchant banker or, as he subsequently became, the investment banker and international financier. Dr. Hidy has taken as a subject for study the history of the Barings, one of the most illustrious of the international banking families, during the period 1763-1861, the century that elapsed between the Seven Years' War and the American Civil War. During a considerable part of this period the Barings were recognized in London as the chief of the "American houses," and it is entirely proper that Dr. Hidy's attention should be focused chiefly on the American business of the Barings, more especially since his main source of information was the Baring Papers in the Canadian Public Archives. Basically the approach employed by Dr. Hidy is that of a chronological account of a very large number of financing operations undertaken by the Barings. In order that these annals may be seen in
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Pub Date : 1950-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024259
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Pub Date : 1950-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024272
J. Chambers
The memoir of William Cripps covers two periods of business activity. The first dated from 1819, when he sailed to New York to begin his career as an agent for the export of Nottingham lace, and ended with his first retirement in 1845. The second began in 1859, when through the roguery of a business associate he found himself a ruined man and, with the aid of the many friends of his youth in New York and Boston, he was successful in founding the Standard Fire Insurance Company of which he remained president until his second retirement in 1879. He then returned to England and in 1882 wrote the memoir here published.
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Pub Date : 1950-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024260
Robert W. Lovett
A familiar figure on the roads of the Middle West during the second half of the last century was the lightning-rod salesman with his wagon. In an area frequently visited by thunder storms, there was a ready market for the latest adaptation of Franklin's protective device. Even in frontier towns, new buildings were not long unequipped with rods, their points tipped with platinum and perhaps ornamented with glass balls. The preservation of two record books, a ledger, and a few letters enables us to tell the story (or at least part of it) of the firm largely responsible for the widespread acceptance of this method of protection against lightning. Cole Brothers, of Mount Pleasant in southeastern Iowa, was a family company, but the fact that its owners were four brothers does not mean that the minutes of their meetings are any less frank or complete. One must only regret that the surviving volumes start after the business had been under way for some time and stop many years before the firm disbanded. However, the story of the intervening years in the life of the company reveals not only steady growth, despite temporary setbacks, but also the interplay of personalities. An enterprise responsible for a product in common use by our ancestors (one which shows signs of returning popularity) is for a moment illumined.
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Pub Date : 1950-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024284
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Pub Date : 1950-03-01DOI: 10.1017/S000768050002420X
N. Gras
When I agreed to recount the story of the Business Historical Society, I naturally thought it was my own swan song that was expected. The occasion was presented to me as the probable closing of a period in the history of the Society and the opening of another day. On thinking over the events of the last twenty-five years, however, I have discovered a number of facts of larger issue and have had a chance to peer beneath the curtain of changing circumstances of world-wide import. The Business Historical Society is not just one more of those numerous American organizations that display our national weakness. It was set up under circumstances of high import by men who were feeling their way toward something significant which they but vaguely understood. In this story, therefore, are revealed some of the social processes which are the fabric of our history. There is, indeed, very little of the merely antiquarian in the theme with which we have to deal—the first survey of the Business Historical Society's experiences.
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