On-Line Sources for Book Reviews of Interest

Business and economic historians can find materials of interest on the several websites devoted to book reviews in history. These include:
H-Net Reviews: the academic mega-site for reviews in all humanities fields; recent reviews of interest here include

Rick Popp on Daniel Clark, Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood
Michael Mann on a collection of East India Company books, including Anthony Webster's The Twilight of the East India Company
Alida Borne on John Bockstoce, Furs and Frontiers in the Far North

EH.Net Reviews: economic history reviews, edited by Robert Whaples and associates. Recent reviews include

Andrew Godley on Garcia-Ruiz and Toninelli, The Determinants of Entrepreneurship
William McClenahan on Berk, Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition
Lisa D. Cook on Ross Thomson, Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age

Reviews in History is sponsored by the University of London's Institute for Historical Research; its review pages also publish authors' responses and offer links to other similar books reviewed as well as to other reviews of the same book. Recent reviews of interest include:

Patrick O'Brien, review essay on Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: Ten Years of Debate
William Gallois on Joyce Appleby, The Relentless Revolution
Ian Donnachie on Anthony Cooke, The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry

All of these sites offer the possibility of subscribing to an email list to receive reviews directly.

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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