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Business History and Economic History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Harold F. Williamson
Harold F. Williamson
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Northwestern University
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As Fritz Redlich has had occasion to point out, business history is neither of American nor of recent vintage–that interest in company histories which began on the Continent early in the nineteenth century had by 1900 prompted at least one prominent German scholar to suggest how a study of business might be developed into an academic discipline. What was new in the United States was the term “business history,” and what is more relevant for my comments in this paper were the circumstances that led to its emergence as a special field and the effect that this separation has had on the relationship between business history and economic history.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 1966 , pp. 407 - 417
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1966

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