..., especially as a stimulus to further research. With profits at a peak in 1793, many adversities began to afflict the company. Problems arose with the death of McGillivray; the outbreak of war between Spain, France, and England; the growing power and acquisitiveness of the United States; the War of 1812...

...Mira Wilkins Grace: W. R. Grace and Company, The Formative Years 1850-1930 . By Clayton Lawrence A. . Ottawa, IL : Jameson Books , 1986 . Maps. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 403 . Cloth . $22.50 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Lawrence...

...Daniela Spenser The Mexican Spy Company: United States Covert Operations in Mexico, 1845-1848 . By Caruso Brooke A. . Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company , 1991 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 175 pp. Cloth . $28.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press...

... is at its best as an entrepreneurial history. Eakin’s argument is fundamentally Schumpeterian, revolving around the ability of a single entrepreneur, George Chalmers, to revive a failing company and make it profitable. With his passing, according to Eakin, the firm lost the ability to innovate and adapt...

...Ward J. Barrett The Peruvian Sugar Industry, 1880-1920, and the Letters of Ronald Gordon, Administrator of the British Sugar Company in Cañete, 1914-1920 . By Albert Bill . Norwich, England , 1976 . School of Social Studies, University of East Anglia . Maps. Graphs. Tables. Index...

...George Tays Fur Brigade to the Bonaventura. John Work’s California Expedition 1882–1888 for the Hudson’s Bay Company . Edited by Maloney Alice Bay . [ California Historical Society .] ( Oakland, California : The Westgate Press , 1945 . Pp. xxii , 112 . Illustrations, maps. $4.00...

...Edwin Lieuwen Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 The Resurgent Years 1911-1927. History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) . By Gibb George Sweet and Knowlton Evelyn H. . Foreword By Baker Ray Palmer . Introduction by Larson Henrietta M. . New York...

...Dana G. Munro The United Fruit Company in Latin America . By May Stacy and Plaza Galo . 7th Case Study in an NPA series on United States Business Performance Abroad . Washington, D. C. , 1958 . National Planning Association . Charts. Tables. Photographs. Appendix . Pp. xv...

...Robert S. Smith The Caracas Company, 1728-1784. A Study in the History of Spanish Monopolistic Trade . By Hussey Roland Dennis . ( Cambridge ; Harvard University Press , 1934 . Pp. xii , 358 . Bibliography. Index. $4.00 ). Copyright 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 ...

...Herbert Ingram Priestley Copyright 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 Sails and Swords; being the Golden Adventures of Balboa and his intrepid Company, Freebooters all, Discoverers of the Pacific . By Strawn Arthur . ( New York : Brentano’s , 1928 . Pp. 341 . $3.50 .) ...

... empirical support. Nevertheless, A Most Splendid Company is undoubtedly the most comprehensive and complete history of the Coronado expedition's participants, and possibly of the expedition itself, ever produced. The volume and the archive on which it rests are monumental achievements and major boons...

...Mary Ann Mahony In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995 . By Striffler Steve . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham : Duke University Press , 2002 . Maps. Tables. Bibliography...

...Kyle Longley The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960 . By Putnam Lara . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2002 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 303 pp. Cloth...

...Mark Moberg These brief overviews only hint at the richness of the studies contained in Company Towns in the Americas . Other chapters examine the interplay of company control and a changing religious dynamic in Brazil with the rise of liberation theology (Dinius), the contradictions between...

... Ibid. 43 JWT, “International Advertising,” 109. 44 The News Letter , 15 Sept. 1929, 3. 45 JWT, “International Advertising,” 110. 46 J. Walter Thompson Company do Brasil, “Investigation Made for Blue Star Line” (1931), microfilm, reel no. 223, 9–11, JWTA. 47 See JWT...

...Steve Striffler Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899 – 2000 . By Bucheli Marcelo . New York : New York University Press , 2005 . Maps. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 241 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . © 2006 by Duke University Press...

...Jonathan Truitt The First Letter from New Spain: The Lost Petition of Cortés and His Company, June 20, 1519 . By Schwaller John F. . With Nader Helen . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2014...

...Thomas F. O'Brien This work offers interesting insights into the world of UFCO and points to yet another research approach to the company. Readers familiar with the activities of midlevel US diplomats in Central America (many of whom acted as if they were actually employed by UFCO...