Books of Interest at “The Page 99 Test”

The "Page 99 Test" blog takes its theme from a Ford Madox Ford quotation: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." An author is asked to look at page 99 of his or her book and comment on how the material reflects the book's overall subject. Several business and economic historians have participated, including most recently Louis Hyman, commenting on Debtor Nation. Others of interest:

Carolyn de la Peña, Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from to Saccharin to Splenda
Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
Mark W. Geiger, Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
Richard S. Grossman, Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800
Richard Longstreth, The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960
James R. Fichter, So Great a Profitt: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism
Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Trades Factories for Finance in the Seventies
Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850

These samples are from 2010 and 2011; the site has listings beginning in 2007.

Digital Collection: Princeton Exhibit of Subway Posters

The Princeton University Library has digitized a number of posters from the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Company . The posters, designed by the public relations firm Ivy Lee, were displayed in subway cars to provide information to riders about changes in fares and routes, safety issues, and other matters of interest. The collection consists of 385 images dating from 1918 to 1932; many of them provide financial information about rates, company dividends, and a general look at an early rapid transit system. October 29, update: Jonathan Rees over at "More or Less Bunk" was moved by this post to go off in search of a better site, and found the massive collection of the London Transport Museum , which displays over 5,000 items in a searchable collection .

The Exchange has moved to the BHC's website

Dear members subscribers of The Exchange The Exchange, the weblog of the BHC, is now part of our website ( https://thebhc.org ). We migrated the blog to serve our membership and interested parties best since Blogger is discontinuing its email service. Note that this will be the last message we will send from Blogger . The Exchange was founded by Pat Denault over a decade ago, and it has become an essential channel for announcements from and about the BHC and from our subscribers and members. Announcements from The Exchange will come up on the News section of our website as they did before. However, if you wish to receive these announcements via email, and you have not done so yet, please subscribe to The Exchange by: Going to our website's homepage ( https://thebhc.org ), s crolling down to the end of the page, and clicking on "Subscribe to the Latest BHC News." Or go to the “News” section of our website's homepage ( https://thebhc.org/ ), and click on...

Wilfried Feldenkirchen (1947-2010)

With sadness we report the death of longtime BHC member Wilfried Feldenkirchen. He died in a car accident on June 21, 2010, while test driving a replica of Siemens' 1905 electric car, the Victoria , a project for which he was the manager. He was professor of economic, social, and business history in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. A former trustee of the BHC and a member of the editorial board of Enterprise & Society , Professor Dr. Feldenkirchen specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century corporate and financial history, focusing particularly on Siemens. In addition to numerous articles and essays, his works include: The Banks and the Steel Industry in the Ruhr: Developments in Relations from 1874 to 1914 (1981) Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (1994) Siemens, 1918-1945 (1999) Siemens: From Workshop to Global Player (2000) "Vom Guten das Beste": Von Daimler und Be...

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