Thomas C Cochran
Biographic Data
| ID | 104282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas C Cochran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochran |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRAN T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 98 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Culture of Technology
The ArgumentThe purpose of this essay is revisionist on two counts: first, that the American colonies and early United States republic kept pace with Great Britain in reaching a relatively advanced stage of industrialization by the early nineteenth century and second, that the Middle Atlantic States shared equally with New England the innovative role in creating America's industrial revolution. In both cases the industrial leaders achieved their …
Challenges to American Values
Challenges to American Values
Challenges to American Values
Journal Article Challenges to American Values: Society, Business, and Religion. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. ix + 147 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $13.95.) Get access James Oliver Robertson James Oliver Robertson University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 929–930, https://doi.org/10.2…
Discrimination-Reversal Learning of Normal and Septal Rats
The purpose of this study was to assess the complex learning skills of normal and septal rats using Rumbaugh's discrimination-reversal task. Transfer Index testing was carried out by using the automated test apparatus, stimulus items, and procedure described by Rumbaugh, et al. in 1972. Even though there were no significant differences between normal and septal rats, all rodents tested showed above chance performance on the transfer index task ( …
Yankee Enterprise
Frontiers of Change
Frontiers of Change
Frontiers of Change
Frontiers of Change
Pioneering in Industrialization
Frontiers of Change
Journal Article Frontieis of Change: Early Industnalism in America. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. vii + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access John J. McCusker John J. McCusker University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Page 147, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887781 Published: 01 June 1…
The Economy of Colonial America
Frontiers of Change
Business and Government in the Oil Industry
Pennsylvania
Journal Article Pennsylvania: A Bicentennial History. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Norton/American Association for State and Local History, 1978. xii + 207 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $8.95.) Get access James H. Madison James H. Madison Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 10…
Business History as Social History
Years of American Business
Journal Article 200 Years of American Business. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Basic Books, 1977. xvi + 288 pp. Notes, sources, and index. $13.95.) Get access Gerald White Gerald White University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1079–1080, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890749 Published: 01 March 1978
Years of American Business
Early Industrialization in the Delaware and Susquehanna River Areas
Research in Economic History
Journal Article Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. 1: 1976. Ed. by Paul Uselding. (Greenwich, Conn.: J AI, 1976. ix + 371 pp. Map, charts, tables, notes, and references. $22.50.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 3, December 1977, Pages 854–855, https://do…
Years of American Business
The Sloan Report
Students of American culture are generally agreed on the preference shown for pragmatic experimental action without much advance theorizing. The evolution of modern business management is a good example of the working of this trait, with the ironic twist that the systems established by practical executives then became the basis for business school theorizing. As a result, by 1950 the pragmatic United States was the leading source of literature an…
Comment on Paper by Sylla
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Social Change in America
Anthropology Today an Encyclopedic Inventory
Railroad Leaders, 1845-1890
Did the Civil War Retard Industrialization
Journal Article Did the Civil War Retard Industrialization? Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 48, Issue 2, September 1961, Pages 197–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902511 Published: 01 September 1961
Cultural Factors in Economic Growth
In 1940, when our Association was founded, this paper might have borne the same title as Caroline Ware's book: The Cultural Approach to History. In the meantime, however, world events have brought economists and historians together around the problem of economic growth. So, while pursuing the same interests illustrated in my contribution to Caroline Ware's book, I have chosen the more fashionable title of "Cultural Factors in Economic Growth
Media as Business
Journal Article Media as Business: A Brief History Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran 1Thomas C. Cochran is Emeritus Benjamin Franklin Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of American Business in the Twentieth Century, Basic History of American Business, and other works on U.S. economic history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Is…
Years of American Business
Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry, 1928-1952
The Paradox of American Economic Growth
Journal Article The Paradox of American Economic Growth Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran senior scholar in residence Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 4, March 1975, Pages 925–942, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890639 Published: 01 March 1975
Land Grants and Railroad Entrepreneurship
The effects of Federal and state land-grant policies on railroad investment, railroad policy, and regional economic development are too varied to be treated in less than a volume. And such a book would require much research that has not as yet been attempted. The following discussion presents only brief notes on a few of the reactions of railroad entrepreneurs to land-grant policy. These notes were accumulated in the course of research on other p…
A Plan for the Study of Business Thinking
The Economics in a Business History
The initial problems in writing the history of a business are similar to those encountered in writing the history of anything else: obtaining free access to all the existing records; determining whether these records are adequate to warrant the writing of a history; and then deciding what one wants to know from the records
Yankee Enterprise
Frontiers of Change
Research in Economic History
Journal Article Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. 1: 1976. Ed. by Paul Uselding. (Greenwich, Conn.: J AI, 1976. ix + 371 pp. Map, charts, tables, notes, and references. $22.50.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 3, December 1977, Pages 854–855, https://do…
Arsenal of Democracy
The Culture of Technology
The ArgumentThe purpose of this essay is revisionist on two counts: first, that the American colonies and early United States republic kept pace with Great Britain in reaching a relatively advanced stage of industrialization by the early nineteenth century and second, that the Middle Atlantic States shared equally with New England the innovative role in creating America's industrial revolution. In both cases the industrial leaders achieved their …
Frontiers of Change
The Sloan Report
Students of American culture are generally agreed on the preference shown for pragmatic experimental action without much advance theorizing. The evolution of modern business management is a good example of the working of this trait, with the ironic twist that the systems established by practical executives then became the basis for business school theorizing. As a result, by 1950 the pragmatic United States was the leading source of literature an…
The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise
Journal Article The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970. By Mira Wilkins. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. xvi + 590 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.00.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 17…
Arthur Harrison Cole, 1889–1974
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The Servants of Power
Recent Contributions to Economic History
Once upon his discussiona time, oraroundso it seems, outstandingthe historiographerworks by leading could professors. Perhaps in some fields of scholarship the time still lingers, but not in recent American economic history. A quick glance at studies applying to the twentieth century that have appeared since World War II shows a large array of books that vary in merit but include few outstanding works. Furthermore, the majority of both the more o…
The American Business System
Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences
The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, 1899–1919
At a time when American shipping generally was finding it difficult to compete in international trade, certain American shipping groups were profiting largely. The strength of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company derived from conservative financial policy, bold but not reckless expansion, astute analysis of trading opportunities, skillful handling of competition, and decisive adaptation to emergencies. A closely knit group of owner-managers he…
New York in the Confederation, an Economic Study
The President Makers
Journal Article The President Makers. By Matthew Josephson. (New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1940. vii + 571 pp. Bibliography. $3.50.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 4, March 1941, Pages 660–661, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897999 Published: 01 March 1941
The Sinews of American Commerce
Journal Article The Sinews of American Commerce. By Roy A. Foulke. (Brooklyn: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., 1941. 418 pp. Illustrations, appendix, and bibliographical references.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 28, Issue 4, March 1942, Pages 617–618, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916564 Published: 01 March 1942
The Age of Enterprise
The Age of Enterprise
Harvard Co-Operative Society
The Age of Enterprise
The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of Industrial America. By Thomas C. Cochran and William Miller. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1942. x + 358 pp. Bibliography and index. $3.50.) Get access Raymond C. Miller Raymond C. Miller Wayne University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 1943, Page 102, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892742 Published: 01 June 1943
Economic History of the American People
Journal Article Economic History of the American People. By Ernest L. Bogart and Donald L. Kemmerer. (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1942. x + 895 pp. Maps, charts, and index. $3.75.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 29, Issue 4, March 1943, Pages 617–618, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916645 Published: 01 …
Some Social Attitudes of Railroad Administrators at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The records of the Industrial Commission of 1898 and 1899 present an unusual cross section of the opinions of the men who were building, supplying, and managing America. Manufacturers, shippers, trade-association officers, government representatives, union leaders, labor and corporation lawyers, workers, and executives all gave extensive testimony before sections of the Commission. Often these men read into the record long statements of their gen…
The Age of Enterprise
Historical Aspects of Imperfect Competition
Operating theories are more or less concealed in the structure of all historical writing. They are readily discerned when the theories are comprehensive and at variance with generally accepted ideas, as in the case of Thomism or Marxism. They are hard to detect when like Spencerianism they conform closely to the mores of American life. Writers may honestly deny in this latter case that they have any special theory; they are simply recording the "…
America and Two Wars
America and Two Wars. By Dexter Perkins. (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1944. vii + 206 pp. Index. $2.00.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 2, September 1944, Pages 290–291, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893446 Published: 01 September 1944
New York City Business Records
The New York Metropolitan area contains a greater volume of important business records than any similar section of the United States; yet up to some three years ago little had been done by the historical profession to encourage the preservation of the records for scholarly use. Some New York business records have been deposited from time to time in the local university libraries, the New York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York…
The Hall-Carbine Affair
The Hall-Carbine Affair: A Study in Contemporary Folklore. By R. Gordon Wasson. (New York: Privately printed, 1941. x + 184 pp. Notes and index.) Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 32, Issue 1, June 1945, Pages 133–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892920 Published: 01 June 1945
The Economics in a Business History
The initial problems in writing the history of a business are similar to those encountered in writing the history of anything else: obtaining free access to all the existing records; determining whether these records are adequate to warrant the writing of a history; and then deciding what one wants to know from the records
The New York Committee on Business Records
During the past winter the New York Committee on Business Records has dealt in a practical way with one group of the difficulties discussed by Arthur Cole in his article, “Business Manuscripts: A Pressing Problem.” This committee has sought to solve the problem by convincing executives that business records are of value not only to themselves but also to scholars, by advising businessmen how they may best arrange their records, and by learning un…
Timing a Century
Timing a Century: History of the Waltham Watch Company. By Charles W. Moore. Harvard Studies in Business History, XI. Edited by N. S. B. Gras. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. xxxiv + 289 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $4.00.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Arsenal of Democracy
A Plan for the Study of Business Thinking
Salem and the Indies
Pepperell's Progress
Pepperell's Progress: History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844–1945. By Evelyn H. Knowlton. Editors' Introduction by N. S. B. Gras and Henrietta M. Larson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. xxix + 511 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, appendixes, and index. $5.00.) Get access Thomas C. Cochran Thomas C. Cochran New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The Pabst Brewing Company
Journal Article The Pabst Brewing Company: The History of an American Business. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: New York University Press, 1948. xii + 451 pp. Illustrations, foreword, tables, appendixes, bibliography, chronology, and index. $5.00.) Get access Lewis E. Atherton Lewis E. Atherton University of Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 1, June 194…
Land Grants and Railroad Entrepreneurship
The effects of Federal and state land-grant policies on railroad investment, railroad policy, and regional economic development are too varied to be treated in less than a volume. And such a book would require much research that has not as yet been attempted. The following discussion presents only brief notes on a few of the reactions of railroad entrepreneurs to land-grant policy. These notes were accumulated in the course of research on other p…
Problems and Challenges in Business History Research with Special Reference to Entrepreneurial History
The major challenge to historians today is the same whether one's research lies in business history or general history. It is to focus the rapidly growing social knowledge of the mid-twentieth century upon historical materials and to do this mainly by asking new questions of the records, questions that will make history an analytic as well as a descriptive discipline.The historian of business is peculiarly well placed to meet this challenge. He w…
The Executive Mind
The Chinese have a proverb to the effect that language is used to conceal intentions. Notwithstanding their traditional frankness, Americans have written letters designed to mislead the reader. Certainly no series of letters, whether from clergymen, politicians, or businessmen can be taken uniformly at face value. But how may statements be discounted or interpreted in such a way that one may draw the correct meaning from them?Usually the letters …
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