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Foreign Entrepreneurship
1885-1905
in
Russian
The Scholastics, Usury, and Foreign
Exchange
Early American Checks: Forms and
Functions
The Rise of English Shipping
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
BOOK REVIEWS
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PUBLISHED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ADVISORY BOARD
EDITOR
JACK BLICKSILVER
FRITZ REDLICH
JAMES P. BAUGHMAN
Georgia State University
Harvard University [Retired]
Harvard University
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National Archives
University of Washington
ARTHUR M. JOHNSON
HENRY ROSOVSKY
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RALPH W. HIDY
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University of Wisconsin
DAVID S. LANDES
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Duke University
GERALD D. NASH
JAMES H. SOLTOW
University of New Mexico
Michigan State University
RODMAN W. PAUL
California Institute
of Technology
M. M. POSTAN
University of Cambridge
Honorary Members
ARTHUR H. COLE
Harvard University [Emeritus]
HENREETTA M. LARSON
Harvard University [Emerita]
International
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ALAN BARNARD
Australian National University
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Universita Degli Studi
Di Parma
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Freie Universitat Berlin
CLAUDE FOHLEN
Universite de Besangon
KARL-GUSTAF HILDEBRAND
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and cargo versions in service,
1935 to date), see pp. 272 84.
Uppsala Universitet
F. E. HYDE
University of Liverpool
H. KLOMPMAKER
Academy of Advanced
Economic Studies
(Haarlem)
KEIICHERO NAKAGAWA
University of Tokyo
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J O H N C O C K E R I L L I N S O U T H E R N RUSSIA, 1885-1905: A STUDY
OF AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN ENTREPRENEURSHBP . . .
JOHN P. MCKAY
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THE SCHOLASTICS, USURY, AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE
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THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS HOARD AND THE ALL-CARGO AIRLINES: THE EARLY YEARS
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RAYMOND DE ROOVER
PHILIP B. SCHARY
EARLY AMERICAN CHECKS AND AN EXAMPLE OF THEIR USE
285
FRITZ REDLICH
WEBSTER M. CHRISTMAN
LAGNIAPPE
"Half the Story of 'The Rise of the English
Shipping Industry'"
303
DWIGHT E. ROBINSON
"Well, Maybe Three-Fifths"
RALPH DAVIS
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
"Of Interest in Tradition"
312
KLAUS H. WOLFF
BOOK REVIEWS
Hyde, Francis E., Shipping Enterprise and Management, 18301939: Harrisons of Liverpool. Reviewed by S. G. Sturmey . .
Wilburn, Jean A., Biddle's Bank: The Crucial Years. Reviewed
by J. Van Fenstermaker
Boyce, Benjamin, The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen
of Bath. Reviewed by F. G. James
Dew, Charles B., Iron Maker to the Confederacy: Joseph R.
Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. Reviewed by James
D. Norris
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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS
VOLUME XLI, NUMBER 3
ADMINISTRATION
AUTUMN 1967
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Gressley, Gene M., Bankers and Cattlemen: The Stocks-andBonds, Havana-Cigar, Mabogany-and-Leather Side of the
Cowboy Era: Politics, Investors, and Operators from 1870
322
to 1900. Reviewed by A. Ray Stephens
Brandfon, Robert L., Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the
Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Harold D. Woodman . . 323
Calvert, Monte A., The Mechanical Engineer in America, 18301910: Professional Cultures in ConBict. Reviewed by Edward
W. Sloan, III
325
Fischer, Wolfram, WASAG: Die Geschichte Eines Unternehmens, 1891-1966. Reviewed by Eugene C. McCreary . . .
326
Priouret, Roger, La Caisse des Depots: Cent Cinquante ans
d'Histoire Financiere. Reviewed by Charles K. Warner . . 328
Baldwin, David A., Economic Development and American Foreign Policy, 1943-62. Reviewed by Thomas V. DiBacco . . 329
Cawelti, John G., Apostles of the Self-Made Man. Reviewed by
Maxwell Bloomfield
330
Mazlish, Bruce, The Railroad and the Space Program: An Exploration in Historical Analogy. Reviewed by Julius Rubin . 331
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