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John P. McKay

Department of History
University of Illinois
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
217-244-2594
217-333-1155
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Education

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct., B.A. in History with Honors, 1961

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University),
Medford, Ma., M.A. in Economics, 1962

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in History, 1968

Languages: French, Russian, German

Academic Positions

University of Illinois, Instructor, 1966-69

University of Illinois, Assistant Professor, 1969-1970

University of Illinois, Associate Professor, 1970-1976

University of Illinois, Professor, 1976--

Field of Specialization: Modern European History

MainTeaching Fields

Western Civilization; Economic History of Europe; Modern France; Russian Economic and Social History; Modern

Business History; Nineteenth-Century Europe

Major Fellowships, Grants, and Prizes:

John Anson Kittredge Fellow, Fletcher Scholarship, 1961-62

Foreign Fellow for Western Europe, 1964-66

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association, 1970, for an outstanding monograph in European history, Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 (l970)

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1970-71

Participant in Sloan Research Development Grant, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 1972-74

Fulbright-Hays and IREX Senior Scholar Fellowship, Soviet Union, Spring 1974

Study in a Second Discipline, University of Illinois, Department of Business Administration, 1980-81

National Foundation for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1984

Publications

Books:

Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970.

The People, by Jules Michelet. Translated with an introduction by John P. McKay, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1973. Sixth paperback printing 1989.

Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1976.

A History of Western Society, Vol. 2: From Absolutism to the Present. First edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1979.

A History of Western Society, Vol. 2: From Absolutism to the Present. Second edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1983.

A History of World Societies. First edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1984. (Co-authored with Bennett D. Hill and John Buckler.)

A History of Western Society, Vol. 2: From Absolutism to the Present. Third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1987.

A History of World Societies. Second edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1988. (Co-authored with Bennett D. Hill and John Buckler.)

A History of Western Society, Vol. 2: From Absolutism to the Present. Fourth edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1991.

A History of World Societies. Third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1992. (Co-authored with Bennett D. Hill and John Buckler.)

A History of Western Society. Vol. 2: From Absolutism to the Present. Fifth edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1995.

A History of World Societies. Fourth edition, Houghton Mifflin

Company, Boston, 1996. (Co-authored with Bennett D. Hill

and John Buckler.)

Articles

"Foreign Entrepreneurship in Russian Industrialization, 1880- 1914," Journal of Economic History, 26 (1966): 582-85.

"John Cockerill in Southern Russia, 1885-1905: a Study of Aggressive Foreign Entrepreneurship," Business History Review, 41 (1967): 243-56.

"Elites in Conflict in Tsarist Russia: The Briansk Company," in The Rich, the Well Born, and the Powerful: Elites and Upper Classes in History, ed. Frederic C. Jaher, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, l973, pp. 179-202.

"Foreign Businessmen, the Tsarist Government and the Briansk Company, Journal of European Economic History, 2 (1973): 273-93.

Foreign Businessmen, the Tsarist Government and the Briansk Company," Proceedings of the Business History Conference, 1 (1973): 11-30.

"Comment" (on Papers by Kindleberger and Lampe), Journal of Economic History, 35 (1975): 90-93.

"The Industrialization of Russia," Forum Press, 1976, 16 pages.

"Entrepreneurship and the Emergence of the Russian Petroleum Industry, 1813-1883," Research in Economic History, 8 (1983): 47-91.

"Les transports urbains en Europe et aux Etats Unis," Les annales de la recherche urbaine, No. 23-24 (juillet- décembre 1984): 115-26.

"Baku Oil and the Transcaucasian Pipeline, 1883-1891: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy," Slavic Review, 43 (1984): 604-23.

"The House of Rothschild (Paris) as a Multinational Industrial Enterprise, 1875-1913," in Alice Teichova, Maurice Lévy- Leboyer, and Helga Nussbaum, eds., Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1986, pp. 74-86. Paperback edition, 1989 .

"Comparative Perspectives on Transit in Europe and the United States, 1850-1914," in Joel Tarr and Gabriel Dupuy, eds., Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1988, pp. 3-21.

"The Rothschilds: Ownership Advantages in Multinational Banking," in Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks as Multinationals in History, Routledge, London, 1990, pp. 120-141.

"Michelet," from Introduction written for my edition of Jules

Michelet, The People, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1973 pp. xiii-xxxi, reprinted in part in Nineteent Century Literature Criticism, vol. 31, Paula Kreps, ed., Gale Research, Detroit, 1991, pp.239-42.

Europe in the 1990s: Still Divided," Swords and Ploughshares, VI, in numbers 3 and 4 (Spring-Summer 1992): 12-13.

"Restructuring the Russian Petroleum Industry in the 1890s: Government Policy and Market Forces," in Linda Edmondson and Peter Waldron, eds., Economy and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1860-1930: Essays in Honour of Olga Crisp, Macmillan, London, 1992, pp. 85- 107.

"Razvitie ekonomiki i regional'noe predprinimatel'stvo v poclednii period Rossiiskoi imperii," in V. S. Diakin and L. Haimson, eds., Rabochii klass i revoliutsionnye situatsii v Rossii v nachale XX veka, Nauka, Leningrad, 1993, pp. 210-22.

Reprint of "Foreign Enterprise in Russian and Soviet Industry: A Long Term Perspective," Business History Review, XLVII, 1974, 336-56, in Harold Livesay, ed., Entrepreneurship and the Growth of Firms, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham (UK), 1995.

Six short essays on: "Birth of a New Age;" "Servants;" "The Pope in Africa;" "The Green Revolution;" "Marketplace;" and "The Haircut;" in Charles Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, eds., Imagining the Twentieth Century, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1987, pp. 4-5, 9-10, 94-95, 96-97, 107-108, and 152-53.

Reviews

Walter M. Pinter, Russian Economic Policy Under Nicholas I, in Business History Review, 42 (1968): 505-506.

Richard M. Haywood, The Beginnings of Railway Development in Russia in the Reign of Nicholas I, 1835-42, in Business History Review, 43 (1969): 556-57.

Holland Hunter, Soviet Transport Experience: Its Lessons for Other Countries, in Slavic Review, 29 (1970): 546-47.

Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR, in Slavic Review, 29 (1970): 713-14.

John Ney, The European Surrender: A Descriptive Study of the American Social and Economic Conquest, in Choice, July, 1970, p.921.

Alexander Gerschenkron, Europe in the Russian Mirror: Four Lectures in Economic History, in Journal of Modern History, 43 (197l): 133-35.

William Blackwell, The Industrialization of Russia: An Historical Perspective, in Slavic Review, 30 (1971): 667.

Joachim Mai, Das deutsche Kapital in Russland, 1850-1894, in Slavic Review, 30 (1971): 885-86.

Mikhail I. Tugan-Baranovsky, The Russian Factory in the 19th Century, translated by A. and C. Levin under the supervision of Gregorgy Grossman, in Business History Review, 52 (1972): 137-38.

D. A. Kovalenko, Oboronnaia promyshlennost' sovetskoi rossii v 1918-1920 gg., in Slavic Review, 31 (1972): 675.

Joseph T. Fuhrmann, The Origins of Capitalism in Russia: Industry and Progress in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, in Business History Review, 46 (1972): 483-84.

V. S. Diakin, Germanskie kapitaly v Rossii: elektroindustriia i elektricheskii transport, in Slavic Review, 32 (1973): 382- 83.

Akademiia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii, Leningradskoe otdelenie, Monopolisticheskii kapital v neftianoi promyshlennosti Rossii, 1914-1917: Dokumenty i materialy, in Jahrbücher für die Geschichte Osteuropas, l974.

Nicholas Balabkins and Arnolds Aizsilmieks, Entrepreneur in a Small Country: A Case Study Against the Background of the Latvian Economy, in Journal of Economic History, 35 (1975): 646-47.

Pierre Léon, François Crouzet et al., L'Industrialization en Europe au XIX siècle, in Journal of Economic History, 35 (1975): 881-884.

Vincent J Knapp, Europe in the Era of Social Transformation, in Choice, April 1976, p.481.

Georges Dupeux, French Society, 1789-1970, in Choice, October 1976, p. 577.

Richard G. Robbins, Famine in Russia, 1891-1892: The Imperial Government Responds to a Crisis, in Journal of European Economic History, 5 (1976): 249-51.

Gaston Rimlinger, Welfare Policy and Industrialization in Europe, America, and Russia, in Journal of Economic History, 36 (1976): 785-786.

Michael Hamm, ed., The City in Russian History, and Gilbert Bozman, Urban Networks in Russia, 1750-1800, and Premodern Periodization, in American Historical Review, 81 (1976): 1173-74.

Olga Crisp, Studies in the Russian Economy Before 1914, in Choice, January 1977, p.440.

V. A. Fedorov, Pomeshchich'i i krest'iane tsentral'nogo- promyshlennogo raiona Rossii kontsa XVIII-pervoi poloviny XIX v., in Russian Review, 32 (1976), 194-95.

Hermann J. Abs, Lebensfragen der Wirtschaft, in Journal of Economic History, 37 (1977): 769-770.

Robert W. Tolf, The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry, in Choice, April 1977, p. 508.

Barry J. Gordon, Political Economy in Parliament, 1819-1823, in Choice, June 1977, p. 494.

Robert W. Tolf, The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry, in Russian Review, July 1977: 361.

Daniel R. Kazmer and Vera Kazmer, Russian Economic History: A ` Guide to Information Sources, in Choice, October 1977, p. 28.

Robert Bruce Davies, Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854-1920, in Business History Review, 52 (1978): 286-87.

Ronald Amann, Julian Cooper and R. W. Davies, eds., The Technological Level of Soviet Industry, and James K. Libbey, Alexander Gumber and Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1933, in Business History Review, 53 (1979): 436-38.

P. A. Tikmenev, A History of the Russian-American Company, in Slavic Review 38 (1979): 299.

Robert R. Locke, Les fonderies et forges d'Alais à l'époque des premiers chemins fer: la création d'une entreprise moderne, in Journal of Economic History, 39 (1979): 779- 80.

Sheila Marriner, ed., Business and Businessmen: Studies in Business, Economic and Accounting History, in Choice, September 1979, p. 615.

Johann Hartl, Die Interessenvertretungen der Industriellen in Russland, 1905-1914, in American Historical Review, 85 (1980): 435.

George D. Holliday, Technology Transfer to the USSR, 1928- 1937 and 1966-1975: the Role of Western Technology in Soviet Economic Development, in Choice, February 1980, p. 522.

R. G. Ryndziunskii, Utverzhdenie kapitalizma v Rossii, 1850- 1880 gg., in Russian Review, 39 (1980): 36l-62.

Karl Freiherr von Aretin and Werne Conze, eds., Deutschland und Russland im Zeilalter des Kapitalismus: 1. Deutsch- Sowjetisches Historikertreffen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Mainz, 14-21 October 1973, in Slavic Review, 39 (1980): 682-83.

Roger R. Bartlett, Human Capital: The Settlement of Foreigners in Russia, 1762-1804, in Journal of Economic History, 40 (1980): 639-40.

C. R. Boxer, Jan Compagnie in War and Peace, 1602-1799: A Short History of the Dutch East-India Company, in Choice, January 1981, p. 518.

William H. Sewell, Jr., Work and Revolution in France: the Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848, in Choice, May 1981, p. 518.

Michael B. Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920, in Journal of Modern History, 54 (1982): 376-78.

Robert H. Donaldson, ed., The Soviet Union in the Third World: Successes and Failures, in Slavic Review, 4 (1982): 341- 42.

Thomas C. Own, Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of Moscow Merchants, in Journal of Economic History, 41(1981): 919-920.

John Barger, Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-1932, in Business History Review, 56 (1982): 721-22.

Michael S. Ross and John R. Hume, The Making of Scotch Whiskey: A History of the Scotch Whiskey Distilling Industry, in Choice, April 1982, p. 491.

Alfred Rieber, Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia, in Journal of Economic History, 42(1982): 940-41.

Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France, in Choice, September 1982, p. 679.

L. E. Shepelev, Tsarizm i burzhuaziia vo vtoroi polovine XIX veka: Problemy torgovo-promyshlennoi politiki, in American Historical Review, 88 (1983): 438-39.

Tatjana Kirstein, Sowjetische Industrialisierung--geplanter oder Spontaner Prozess? Eine Strukturanalyse des Wirtschaftspolitischen Entscheidungsprozesses beim Aufbau des Ural-Kuzneck-Kombinats 1918-1930, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 31 (1983):442-43.

Heiko Haumann, Kapitalismus in zaristischen Staat 1906-1917: Organisationsformen, Machtverhaltnisse und Leistungsbilanz im Industrialisierungsprozess, in Journal of Modern History, 56 (1984): 192-94.

J. P. Morray, Project Kuzbas: American Workers in Siberia (1921-1926), in Choice, February 1984, p. 485.

B. N. Mironov, Vnutrenii rynok Rossii vo vtoroi polovine XVIII- pervoi polovine XIX v., in Slavic Review, 43 (1984):99- 101.

Theodore Hamerow, The Birth of a New Europe: State and Society in the Nineteenth Century, in Business History Review, 35 (1984): 635-37.

V. J. Laveryshev, Gosudarstvo i monopolii v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii: Problemy vmeshatel'stva absoliutistskogo gosudarstva v ekonomicheskuiu zhin' i vozdeistviia kapitalisticheskikh monopolii na gosudarstvennyi apparat, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 32 (1984): 437-38.

Gregory Guroff and Fred V. Carstensen, Entrepreneurship in I Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, in Business History Review, 58 (1984): 149-151.

German Society for Business, German Yearbook on Business History: 1983, in Choice, December 1984, p. 426.

Fred V. Carstensen, American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia, in International History Review, 7 (1985): 493-495.

D. C. M. Platt, Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the United States, 1815-1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution, in Russian Review, 44 (1985): 200-201.

Elaine Glovka Spencer, Management and Labor in Imperial Germany:Ruhr Industrialists as Employers, in Choice, February 1985, p. 453.

George Marz, Austrian Banking and Financial Policy: Creditanstalt at a Turning Point, 1913-1923, in Choice, June 1985, p. 446.

George Ray, The Diffusion of Mature Technologies, in Choice, May1985, 468.

Bernard Petit, Chemins de terres et voies d'eau: Réseaux de transports et l'organisation de l'éspace en France, 1740- 1840, in American Historical Review, 90 (1985): 688-89.

John Scott, Directors of Industry: the British Corporate Network, in Choice, February 1986, p. 391.

Glenn Yago, The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970, in Technology and Culture, April 1986: 331-32.

Anders Aslund, Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe: The Non- Agricultural Private Sector in Poland and GDR, 1945- 1983, in Business History Review, Spring 1986: 168-69.

Arcadius Kahan, The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia, in Choice, April 1986, p.402.

Eric Kerridge, Textile Manufacture in Early Modern England, in Choice, June 1986, p. 356.

David G. Good, The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914, in Slavic Review, 45 (1986): 152-53.

Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp, eds., Work in France: Representations, Meanings, Organization, and Practice, in Choice, October 1986, p.476.

Philip Nord, Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment, in Choice, November 1986, p. 429.

Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr., How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World, in American Historical Review, 92 (1987): 96-97.

Charles Jones, International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall of a Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie, in Choice, January 1987, p.378.

Urs Rauber, Schweitzer Industrie in Russland: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der industriellen Emigration des Kapitalexportes und des Handels der Schweiz mit dem Zarenreich (1760-1917), in Russian Review, 46 (1987): 98.

Peter Strachura, ed., Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimer Germany, in Choice, April 1987, p. 450.

Gay Gullickson, Spinners and Weaver of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village, 1750-1850, in Choice, July-August 1987, p. 368.

Patricia Herlihy, Odessa: A History, 1794-1914, in Business History Review, 61 (1987): 670-671.

David G. LoRomer, Merchants and Reform in Livorno, 1814- 1868, in Choice, September 1987, p. 567.

Walter Süss, Die Arbeiterklasse als Machine: Ein industrie- soziologischer Beitrag zur Sozialgeschichte des aufkommenden Stalinismus, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 35 (1987): 438-39.

W. E. Mosse, Jews in the German Economy: the German-Jewish Elite, 1820-1935, in Choice, March 1988, p. 394.

Brigitte Lohr, Die "Zukunft Russlands": Perspectiven Russischer Wirtschaftsentwicklung und Deutsch-Russische Wirtschaftsbeziehungen vor dem ersten Weltkrieg, in Slavic Review, 47 (1988): 127-28.

Sevket Pamuk, The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913, in Choice, May 1988, p. 379.

A. A. Fursenko, Nefitanye voiny (konets XIX-nachalo XX v.), in American Historical Review, 93 (1988): 1013-14.

Frank Tipton, An Economic and Social History of Europe, 1890- 1939, in Choice, July-August 1988, p.470.

Philippe Marguerat, Banque et investissement industriel: Paribas, le pétrole roumain et la politique française, 1919-1939, in Journal of Economic History, 39 (1988): 470.

Walter Kirchner, Die deutsche Industrie und die Industrialisierung Russlands, 1815-1914, in Journal of Economic History, 40 (1989): 493-95.

Dick Geary, Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe Before 1914, in Choice, October 1989, p. 524.

Lee Shai Weissbach, Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century: Assuring the Future Harvest, in Choice, January 1990, p. 521.

Rondo Cameron, A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, in American Historical Review, 95 (1990): 1496-97.

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, in Isis, 81 (1990): 788-90.

Jacque Rancière, The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, in Choice, Jul/Aug 1990, p. 517.

Jordan Goodman and Katrina Honeyman, Gainful Pursuits: The Making of Industrial Europe, 1600-1914, in Business History Review, 63 (1989): 978-79.

Arcadius Kahan, Russian Economic History in the Nineteenth Century, in Business History Review, 64 (1990): 579-80.

Judith Wishnia, The Proletarianizing of the Functionnaires: Civil Service Workers and the Labor Movement Under the Third Republic, in Choice, May 1991, p. 507.

Simon Ville, Transport and the Development of the European

Economy, in Business History Review, 65 (1991); 453-54.

Joseph Bradley, Guns For the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia, in The Slavonic and East European Review, 70 (1992): 163- 64.

Thomas C. Owen, The Corporation under Russian Law, 1850- 1917, in Business History Review, 66 (1992): 426-28.

Steven G. Marks, Road to Power: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917, in Journal of World History, 5 (1994): 152-53.

Heather Hogan, Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890-1914, in Business History Review, 68 (1994): 448-450.

Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West, eds. Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia, in Russian Review, 65 (1995): 126.

Herbert A. Lottman, The French Rothschilds: The Great Banking Family Through Two Turbulent Centuries, and George Heuberger, The Rothschilds: Essays on the History of a European Family, in Business History Review, 69 (1995): 594-96.

Peter Gatrell, Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism, in American Historical Review, 101 (1996): 528-29.

Dietmar Rothermund, The Global Impact of the Great Depression, 1929-1939, in Choice, 34 (1997), p. 2865.

Nicholas Papayanis, Horse-drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris, in Business History Review, 35 (1997): 142-44.

Peter Gurney, Co-operative Culture and the Politics of Consumption in England, 1870-1930, in Choice, 35 1998), p. 494.

Major Papers Presented at Professional Meetings and Conferences:

"Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization," Economic History Association annual meeting Ann Arbor, September1966.

"Foreign Businessmen, the Tsarist Government, and the Briansk Company," Business History Conference annual meeting, Chicago, March 1972.

"The Decline of the Baku Petroleum Industry, 1900-1914," American Association for the Advancement of Slavlic Studies annual meeting, Dallas, October 1975.

"The Evolution of a Text for Western Civilization," The Community College Social Science Association annual meeting, St. Louis, October1978.

"A New Text for Western Civilization," Illinois Community College Social Science Association, Waubonsee Community College, April 1979.

"Large-Scale Business Enterprise in Russia and the United States, 1861-1914," Third Colloquium on History of Soviet and American Scholars, AHA-Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Moscow, November 27-December 1979.

"Business in Baku: Competition and Collusion in the Russian Oil Industry," American Historical Association annual meeting, New York, December 1979.

"Comparative Perspectives on Urban Transit Development in Europe and the USA (1850-1914)," International Conference sponsored by Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, December12-15, 1983.

"The House of Rothschild (Paris) as a Multinational Industrial Enterprise, 1875-1914," University of East Anglia, Norwich, International Conference on Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective, March 26-29 1985.

"Restructuring the Russian Petroleum Industry in the 1890s: Government Policy and Market Forces," School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Colloquium in Russian Economic and Social History, London, 8-10 July 1987.

"The Rothschilds: Ownership Advantages in Multinational Banking," University of Reading, International Conference on the History of Banks as Multinationals, Reading, 16-19 July1989.

"Economic Development and Regional Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia," Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, Institute of History, International Colloquium on the Working Class and the Development of the Revolutionary Situation in Early Twentieth-Century Russia, Leningrad, June 3-9 1990, Leningrad.

"Foreign Entrepreneurs in Tsarist Russia, 1860-1914." Paper presented at Conference on German Entrepreneurs in Russia Before the Revolution, sponsored by Albert- Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, Dec. 1994

Other Participation in Meetings and Conferences:

Economic History Association annual meeting, Philadephia, September 1974.

Economic History Association, Co-Chairman of Program Committee, 1975-76, for annual meetings in Denver, September 1976.

American Historical Association annual meeting, Chair, "Crime and Urbanization in Europe in the nineteenth Century," Atlanta, December 1975.

Economic History Association annual meeting, Chair, "Early Modern Industrial Development Reconsidered," Boston, September 1980.

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, "Arcadius Kahan's Contribution to Economic History," roundtable discussion, Kansas City, October 1983

Ninth Congress of the International History Association, invited participant in A-Theme Session on the History of Multinational Enterprise, Bern, August 1986.

Ninth Congress of the International History Association, commentator on B-Theme session on the History of the Petroleum Industry, Bern, August 1986.

Western Society for French Historical Studies annual meeting, Chair, "France in the International Economy in the Twentieth Century," New Orleans, October 1989.

Tenth Congress of the International History Association, invited participant in B-Theme Session on the History of Banks as Multinationals, Louvain, August 1990.

Society for French Historical Studies annual meeting, Chair, "New Views on the Working Class in Early Nineteenth- Century France, El Paso, March 1991.

University of Illinois, Conference on the "Future of Europe,"

Discussant for papers by Donald Hodgman and Larry Neal, April 1991.

Jackson State University, Conference on "Teaching from a Global Perspective," two addresses: "Selecting Content For World History," April 15, 1993, and "The Industrial Revolution: Its Place in World History," April 16, 1993.

University of Illinois, Conference on FrenchStudies, Chair and Commentator for session on Early Modern French Military History, March 1995

Other Notable Professional Acitivities:

Slavic Review, Acting Editor, Spring 1971.

Trustee, Business History Conference, 1981-1984.

Economic History Association, Committee on Research in Economic History, 1982-1985.

Journal of Economic History, Board of Reviewers, 1978-82.

Business History Review, Board of Reviewers, 1981 to present.

Reader for Northwestern University Press, Dryden Press, Northern Illinois Press, Princeton University, Rutgers University Press, Harvard University Press, and several otherpresses over the years.

Referee for Slavic Review, Studies in East European Social History, Journal of Economic History, Business History Review, American Historical Review, French Historical Studies

Editor since 1982 of Industrial Development and Social Change: An International Series of Research Monographs, with JAI Press. Series has published or is publishing:

Vol. 7. Robert Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Higher Education and the Institutionalization of Entrepreneurial Performance in Germany, France, and Great Britain,1880-1940, 1984.

Vol. 8. Filing Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the United States, 1986.

Vol. 9. Josef Brada and Istvan Dobozi, eds., The Hungarian Economy in the 1980s, 1988.

Vol. 10. Judith Vichniac, The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron Industries, 1860-1918, 1990. Vol. 11. Yasuo Mishima, The Mitsubishi: Its Challenge and Strategy, 1989.

Vol. 12. A. A. Fursenko, The Batle for Oil: The Economics and Politics of International Corporate Conflict over Petroleum, 1860-1930, 1991.

Vol. 13. Timothy Whistler, At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healy, MG and Triumph Sports Cars 1945-1981, 1995

Editorial Board, Russian Entrpreneurship, bilingual journal, Moscow, 1991-92

Work in Progress:

"Managing for the Rothschilds: Business Strategy and the Culture of Capitalism, 1875-1913," monograph, largely written.

"The History of Russian Entrepreneurship," more articles, possible general interest survey carrying developments to the present.

Possible Future Books:

"European Business in the Age of Industrialization, 1815-1914: Firms, Families, and Alliances" April 1998

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