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In the manner of the Creole tradesmen of Louisiana, whose lagniappe to their patrons is legendary, the Editors offer a similar bonus to readers of the Review. Instead of trifling presents added to a purchase, however, our lagniappe will be documents illustrative of the evolution of business enterprise. It is hoped thus to provide a wider availability of the raw materials of business history to teachers and researchers.
On the eve of the merger mania at the turn of the century, the reversal of the first two words in the name of the Shawmut National Bank made it the successor in a consolidation of ten national banks in Boston. Many of the characteristics of this consolidation are exceptions to common generalizations about corporations and control; mergers and motivations.
The promotional, financial, and manufacturing enterprises of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. are examined in this study of its most prosperous years.
To stimulate further research in the history of business instruments, the Review offers this illustrated record of a search for the earliest evidence of printed corporate securities.
One of the pioneers in the historical study of business and entrepreneurship recalls the origins of the two fields and suggests a synthesis as a basis for further research and analysis. The Editors and Dr. Cole welcome comments and discussion of these ideas.
The following piece contains valuable information on medieval industrial and labor history. It is a translation from a family chronicle and autobiography written by the Nürnberg patrician, merchant, and statesman, Ulman Stromer (1329–1407). Stromer is considered to have been the creator of the German large-scale paper industry which he founded in 1390 by building a paper mill near his home town.
The organizational alternatives available to businessmen are often important in the channeling of economic growth, as shown in this historical study of the French experience.
The interaction of business and political goals and strategies is emphasized in this critique of a key state bank's role in national affairs of the 1830's.