25th Anniversary

Conference

 

San Diego, California

April 27-29, 2000

 

 

 

The 25th anniversary meeting was, thanks to the hard work of the officers, and the on site preparatory team, a huge success. Presenters from all regions of the United States, as well as London, and Taiwan presented a plethora of well written and well researched papers.  Many of these will be available to the  public in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of the Economic and Business History Society.

 

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2000

SESSION ONE: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

 

 

1A.  The Business of Caring for the Dead: Ancient Past,

         Present and Future!

Chair: Malcolm Russell, Pacific Union College

  1. "Bangles, Beads, and Bedouin: Excavating a Late Ottoman Cemetery in Jordan"  Bethany J. Walker, Oklahoma State University

  2. "One Man's Demise is Another Man's Gain: The Growth of the Funeral Industry on the Iowa Frontier" Silvano A. Wueschner, William Penn College

  3. "Mortuary Mergers and the Internalization of Internment" David O. Whitten, Auburn University

 

1B. Politics and Economic Development

Chair: Philip R. Smith, Michigan State University

  1. "Competition for Leadership/Hegemonic Development Patterns and Military Spending Among Eight Western Democracies, 1920-1938" Jari Eloranta, European University Institute

  2. "Incidental Protection: An Examinationof the Morrill Tariff" Jane Flaherty, Texas A & M

  3. "The Best-Laid Plans: Fred M. Vinson and the Decline and Fall of the Roosevelt Court, 1946-1949"  Harvey Gresham Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State University

 

 

 

SESSION TWO: 11A.M.-12:30 p.m.

 

 
2A.  Alternative Forms of Transport

Chair: Gene Smiley

 

  1. "Flying Down to Rio: American Commercial Aviation and the Good Neighbor Policy, 1933 - 1944" Erik Benson, University of Georgia

  2. "A Short History of the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry" Richard D. Stone and Ronald Taylor, Shippensburg University

  3. "The Cuba Company and the Transformation of Eastern Cuban Society"  Juan C. Santamarina, University of Dayton

2B.  Response to Technical and Market Changes

Chair: James Johnson, St. Cloud State

 

  1. "The Last Gasp: The Closing of the Boott, Lowell Massachusetts, 1945 - 55" Maura Doherty, Illinois State University

  2. "The Early 20th Century Fox River Valley Paper Industry: Responses to New Technology"   Ralph O. Gunderson, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

  3. Barnstormers, Businessmen, and V-12s: Bloomsburg's Romance with Aviation"  Douglas Karsner, Bloomsburg University

 

 

SESSION THREE: 2:00 P.M.-4:00 p.m.

 

 

3A.   Banks, Bankers, and Regulation

Chair: Richard Keehn, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

  1. "The First National Bank of Midland Bank Failure: A Historical Perspective"  Michael Brandl, University of Texas at Austin, and Michael Williams, University of Denver

  2. "The Rise and Fall of Glass-Steagal" Kenneth Weiher, University of Texas

3B.  Drinking, Dining, and Social Climbing

Chair:  Michael V. Namorato, University of Mississippi

  1. "The Very name of Whiskey is Nauseous to Some Men: Manual Writers and the Re-Fashioning of the American Distilling Industry, 1790-1815"  Jason D. Bell, University of Texas at Austin

  2. "Les Amis d'Escoffier and the Post-Depression Labor Market for Chefs de Cuisine in America"  Martin T. Olliff, Auburn University

  3. "Struggling Upward with michael J. Boyle and Friends: Lower-Middle Class Workers and the Boundaries of Business and Gender Success in the Gilded Age West"  Jocelyn A. Wills, Brooklyn College

3C.  Business, Government, and the International Economy

Chair: Douglas Steeples, Mercer University

  1. "The American Business Community's Reaction to German Aggression, 1932-1940"  Monica Cousins Noraian, Illinois State University

  2. "Data Synchronization of Business Fluctuations: Observations on the U.S. and Latin America for 1972-1989"  Stanley C. Salvary, Canisius College

  3. "On the Recent Evolution of Asset Protection Plans: Tax Haven Options."  Magdalena Rappl and Norman Williams, College of Business Administration, Tennessee Technological University

 

 

Friday, April 28, 2000

SESSION FOUR: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

 

 

4A.  The World of Business: Past, Present, and Future

Chair:  Silvano Wueschner, William Penn College

  1. "Chata Enterprise: A Choctaw Tribal Business"  Michael V. Namorato, University of Mississippi

  2. "More Than an Oil Slick: The Impact of East Asia's Economic Crisis on the Middle East, 1996 - 1999"  Malcolm Russell, Pacific Union College

  3. "Commonalities: The R.E.A. and High Speed Rural Internet Access"  Larry Malone, Hartwick College

 

 

 

 

4B.  Varieties of 20th Century Business Problems

Chair:  Keith L. Bryant, Jr. University of Akron

  1. "Challenges in Transplantation: Honda of America Manufacturing and the Search for Personnel"  Jonathan S. Russ, University of Delaware

  2. "A Historical Perspective of Labor Relations of United Airlines" Marion C. Schultz, University of West Florida; James T. Schultz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; and Dan Johnson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  3. "The Controversy Over the Storage of Fuel Oil in the Gulf South, 1901- 1905" Mobile, New Orleans, and Galveston as Case Studies"  James B. McSwain, Tuskegee University

 

 

SESSION FIVE: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 NOON

 

 

5A.   Reconciling Gender and Business Ideologies

Chair: Jocelyn Wills, Brooklyn College, CUNY

  1. "Drawing Against the Grain: The Entrepreneurial Ambitions of Women in Commercial Publishing"  Barbara Balliet, Rutgers University

  2. "Giving the Business Man a History: Charles, Mary, and Miriam Beard"  Mary Yeager, UCLA

  3. "They Hated Me on Spec: Doing Business as a Woman in a Man's World"  Susan Yohn, Hofstra University

 

 

 

 

5B.   Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship I

Chair: David Whitten, Auburn University

  1. "The Murrays of Murray Hill:  Two Generations of New York Merchants, 1750 - 1830"  Charles Monaghan, Urban History Press, New York

  2. "Retailing Franchising - A Business Model Designed for Social Change by a 19th Century Businesswoman."  Janet R. Plitt, University of Rochester

 

5C.   Railroads: 19th and 20th Centuries

Chair: Michael Smith, University of South Carolina

  1. "Organizing for War: Southern Railroad Management During the Civil War."  Steven G. Collins, St. Louis Community College at Meramec

  2. "Railroad Renaissance: The Post-1970 Short Line Movement."  Michael Landry, Northeastern State University, and John Oxment, University of Arkansas

 

 

 

SESSION SIX: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m

 

 

6A.  20th Century Asian Economics

Chair: Thomas R. Winpenny, Elizabethtown College

  1. "Collusion in the Indian Jute Industry in the 1930s: Why did it not Work?  Bishnupriya Gupta, London School of Economics

  2. "American Business and the China Trade Embargo in the 1950s" Kailai Huang, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

  3. "Financing Industrialization in Prewar China"  Yeh-chien Wang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

 

 

 

6B.   Government, Business, and Labor Relations

Chair: Richard Keehn, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

  1. "Labor Conflict at American Airlines"  Marion C. Schultz, University of West Florida; James T. Schultz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; and Dan Johnson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  2. "Joint Industrial Councils and Trade Restraint"  James W. Stitt, High Point University

  3. "State Building and Deindustrialization in Postwar Pennsylvania, 1945 - 1961."  Gregory Wilson, Ohio State University

6C.   Silk, Rubber, and Economic Development

Chair: Michael Brandl, University of Texas, Austin

  1. "Crisis and Change in the Southern Italian Economy: The Silk Industry in the Reggio Calabria Region, 1567 - 1681"  Antonio Calabria, University of Texas, San Antonio

  2. "'Rubber Feever' in Upper Guinee (West Africa), 1880-1913"  Emily Osborn, Stanford University

  3. "Italian Economic History and the Linguistic Turn."  David LoRomer, Michigan State University

 

 

SESSION SEVEN: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

 

 

7A.   Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship II

Chair: David Whitten, Auburn University

  1. "The Lion in Summer: Eddie Rickenbacker and Eastern Airlines, 1935 - 1941"  W. David Lewis, Auburn University

  2. "The Winpennys of Manayunk: An Alternative Approach in the Burgeoning Nineteenth Century American Textile Industry"  Thomas R. Winpenny, Elizabethtown College

  3. Advertising and an Accidental Classic: Illustrated sketches of Death Valley" Douglas Steeples, Mercer University

 

 

7B.   Economic History and Economic Theory

Chair: Larry Schweikart, University of Dayton

  1. "The 'New Economy' Solow's Paradox, and Economic History"  Steven B. Isbell, Tennessee Technological University

  2. "Strategic Innovation: The Third Industrial Stage"  James D. Smith, New School

  3. "Henry C. Wallich: A Third Generation Banker."  Saul Engelbourg, Boston University

 

 

 

 

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