Publications of Edward J Balleisen :chronological combined bibtex listing:
Edward J Balleisen
Books
- Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia/HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992-2001 (Fuqua School of Management, Duke University, June, 2003). [click_here_for_more_information]
- Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, March, 2001). [click_for_more_information]
Papers Published
- Review Essay of T. H. Breen,. "The Marketplace of Revolution." Business History Review 79:2 (Spring, 2005): 353-63.
- "Bankruptcy and the Entrepreneurial Ethos in Antebellum American Law." Australian Journal of Legal History 8:1 (Winter, 2004): 61-82. [pdf file of article]
- "The Celebrated Showman Unmasked." Reviews in American History 30 (2002): 393-400. Review Essay on Benjamin Reiss's The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America
- "Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress." Business History Review 70 (Winter, 1996): 473-516.
Book Reviews
- E.J. Balleisen, "Review of Jocelyn Wills, Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883". American Historical Review 111 (2006): 196-97.
- E.J. Balleisen, "Review of Scott Sandage's Born Losers: A History of Failure in America". Journal of the Early Republic 26 (2006): 139-42.
- Review of David Skeel, "Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America". Law and History Review 22 (2004): 190-91.
- Review of Bruce Mann, "Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128:2 (2004): 204-06.
- Review of Jonathan Glickstein, "American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States". American Historical Review 108:5 (December, 2003): 1448-49.
- V. Markham Lester, "Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth-Century England". Business History Review 70 (Fall, 1996): 426-27.
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