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Papers by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
The Americas, Sep 30, 2023
Journal of management history, Mar 25, 2024
Enterprise & Society
I very much appreciate that Brittany Farr, Katie Moore, and Sharon Murphy took the time to write ... more I very much appreciate that Brittany Farr, Katie Moore, and Sharon Murphy took the time to write thoughtful and constructive responses to my essay. Collectively, their work spans three centuries and covers law, money, race, violence, financial institutions, and the social experiences of economic processes, and they approached my proposal for a new variety of capitalism from a set of shared interest and expertise in the histories of economic life. They reach drastically different conclusions on the historiographical trend known as the new history of capitalism (NHOC) generally, and martial capitalism, specifically.
The New England Quarterly, Jun 1, 2020
Revolution for Boston turns out to be the transfer of its dependence-but not its autonomy-from Br... more Revolution for Boston turns out to be the transfer of its dependence-but not its autonomy-from Britain to the other twelve colonies. But although it preserved its self-governance, the Revolution hastened the end of the city-state, a development that Peterson looks on with some regret. I appreciate Peterson's honesty in wondering if we have outlived the usefulness of the nation-state. This is not nostalgia on his part but a sincere call to all of his readers to look with clear-eyed honesty at our present and acknowledge that there are still other paths to explore. This is a massive book, but I was genuinely sad to have finished it. Beyond the pleasures of its abundant content, its impressive research, its thoughtful analysis, and its important arguments, it was simply a joy to read. The prose is clear, friendly, and accessible, making even well-known anecdotes sparkle in their new setting. A city and a history that I thought I knew very well will never look the same to me again.
Enterprise and Society, Apr 20, 2020
Women of fortune tells the story of three generations of merchant, gentry, and noble families, li... more Women of fortune tells the story of three generations of merchant, gentry, and noble families, linked by marriage in the period 1570 to 1732. The author is particularly interested in the role of the women in these families. As heiresses and later the wives-and also sometimes widows-of baronets, peers, and farmers, they were able to exercise their own property rights and financial assets, as well as cultural and intellectual interests. This rich tapestry of characters includes Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway, who wrote a philosophical treatisein Latin-and corresponded with Leibniz; Lady Salisbury who spent £11,000 on a Grand Tour; and Grace Bennet who bequeathed almost £50,000 of assets invested in loans and shares to her nephew, the sixth Earl of Salisbury. The families concerned are the descendants of two younger sons of parish gentry: Thomas Bennet and Gilbert Morewood, who came to London as gentlemen apprentices of London livery companies. They and their heirs lived through turbulent times, which included the Civil War and the Republic, but were able to benefit from a wide and expanding range of different activities from which to make money, including international trade, Crown finance, banking, real estate, and investment. They used some of these funds to invest in marriage portions to finance upward social mobility through their daughters' marriages to the elite. The book is divided into four sections entitled 'Money', 'Marriage', 'Murder', and 'Metropolis', although these themes are intertwined in every chapter. As an example, the 'Murder' section relates to the death of Grace Bennet, widow of the grandson of Thomas Bennet who had inherited substantial assets from his father, grandfather, and aunt. As a wealthy widow, Grace lived alone as a recluse, spending a fraction of her £4,000 a year income. She was disliked by her neighbours for refusing to pay her poor rates, for refusing to pay tithes to the local minister, and for firing her steward. Rumour had it that she hoarded her wealth in the old-fashioned way, in gold. The local butcher was unable to resist breaking her neck and stealing the gold. He was hanged for her murder soon after. Each story of each individual in the book highlights the links between land, commerce, and finance. It shows how, over the period, attitudes changed from investing in gold as a symbol, to using idle funds to lend out at high rates of interest unsecured or on mortgage or, later in the period, in South Sea annuities and shares in the East India Company and the Bank of England. Money was also used to fund international trade and real estate investment and speculation. The role of heiresses in these overlapping stories is key to the success of these families. The author argues they have wrongly been assigned to footnotes in the larger story of the rise and fall of aristocratic families. This book shows how important the marriage portions were-with a significant number of arranged marriages-in planning a successful future. But it concentrates on how these women, when married or widowed, managed their own lives, planned their children's future, and took great care to use their wills to pass wealth on as they saw fit. The author, through the numerous case studies, argues that by the end of the seventeenth century, elite women's positions had improved, including the freedom to
Business History Review, 2021
As Karen Cook Bell ultimately concludes, they saw "landownership [as] a form of resistance, an at... more As Karen Cook Bell ultimately concludes, they saw "landownership [as] a form of resistance, an attempt to take charge of their own destinies" (p. 83).
Journal of Cultural Economy, Jan 23, 2020
Journal of the Early Republic, 2021
Journal of the Early Republic, 2019
<p>Abstract:</p><p>Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development. ... more <p>Abstract:</p><p>Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoureaux and John Joseph Wallis.</p>
Technology and Culture, 2018
The business records of textile entrepreneur and inventor Erastus Bigelow offer extraordinary det... more The business records of textile entrepreneur and inventor Erastus Bigelow offer extraordinary detail about how financing innovation worked on the ground in the antebellum United States. For the first decades of the nineteenth century, increasing numbers of Americans sought patent protection, even as patents often brought little monetary benefit or status to their holders. Historians have tended to look to the court system to account for why this was the case, even though only a small percentage of patent holders ever litigated. This article, by contrast, examines the securitization of patents, which many inventors increasingly saw as supple tools to secure research funds and monetize intellectual property. As individuals and firms bought and sold patents for cash, labor contracts, and funding for further research and development, they shaped an evolving market for intellectual property. Throughout the nineteenth century, this market offered inventors increasing opportunities to offload the risks, and sometimes the rewards, of invention.
Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks, 2019
Business History Review, 2022
Business History Review, 2018
The years surrounding the origins of the term "Manifest Destiny" were a transitional period in th... more The years surrounding the origins of the term "Manifest Destiny" were a transitional period in the history of industrialization. Historians have done much to analyze the impact of major technological shifts on business structure and management, and to connect eastern markets and westward expansion. They have paid less attention, however, to the relationship among continental geopolitics, industrial development, and frontier warfare. This article uses War Department papers, congressional reports, and manufacturers' records to examine how the arms industry developed in response to military conflict on the frontier. As public and private manufacturers altered production methods, product features, and their relationships to one another, they contributed to the industrial developments of the mid-nineteenth century.
History: Reviews of New Books, Mar 10, 2017
Enterprise and Society, 2015
Studies in American Political Development, Jan 30, 2020
During the 1810s and 1820, officials in the War Department engaged in military state building, wh... more During the 1810s and 1820, officials in the War Department engaged in military state building, which transcended partisanship and contributed to the development of executive autonomy. The process revealed the ability of the executive to shape national security, while also foreshadowing Progressive Era trends toward expertise-based bureaucratic autonomy. The activities of the Ordnance Department suggest that the connection between war and early American state building was forged in the efforts to bolster the armaments industry. Ordnance officers established autonomy partly through arms expertise, and they were not necessarily coalition builders like the late nineteenth-century Post Office and Department of Agriculture bureaucrats, especially because they generated more hostility. Thus, there were different routes by which autonomy was and is established, but in the first decades of the nineteenth century, this autonomy depended on national security and war preparations. This article uses War Department papers, armory records, and congressional debates to show how certain bureaucrats developed the ability to work against congressional limits to their functionality. Ordnance ultimately succeeded because its leaders executed a nonpartisan military agenda and demonstrated an ability to effectively manage the nation's security apparatus, especially in times of peace.
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 2019
Enterprise and Society, Nov 14, 2016
Enterprise and Society, Oct 2, 2018
The Americas, Sep 30, 2023
Journal of management history, Mar 25, 2024
Enterprise & Society
I very much appreciate that Brittany Farr, Katie Moore, and Sharon Murphy took the time to write ... more I very much appreciate that Brittany Farr, Katie Moore, and Sharon Murphy took the time to write thoughtful and constructive responses to my essay. Collectively, their work spans three centuries and covers law, money, race, violence, financial institutions, and the social experiences of economic processes, and they approached my proposal for a new variety of capitalism from a set of shared interest and expertise in the histories of economic life. They reach drastically different conclusions on the historiographical trend known as the new history of capitalism (NHOC) generally, and martial capitalism, specifically.
The New England Quarterly, Jun 1, 2020
Revolution for Boston turns out to be the transfer of its dependence-but not its autonomy-from Br... more Revolution for Boston turns out to be the transfer of its dependence-but not its autonomy-from Britain to the other twelve colonies. But although it preserved its self-governance, the Revolution hastened the end of the city-state, a development that Peterson looks on with some regret. I appreciate Peterson's honesty in wondering if we have outlived the usefulness of the nation-state. This is not nostalgia on his part but a sincere call to all of his readers to look with clear-eyed honesty at our present and acknowledge that there are still other paths to explore. This is a massive book, but I was genuinely sad to have finished it. Beyond the pleasures of its abundant content, its impressive research, its thoughtful analysis, and its important arguments, it was simply a joy to read. The prose is clear, friendly, and accessible, making even well-known anecdotes sparkle in their new setting. A city and a history that I thought I knew very well will never look the same to me again.
Enterprise and Society, Apr 20, 2020
Women of fortune tells the story of three generations of merchant, gentry, and noble families, li... more Women of fortune tells the story of three generations of merchant, gentry, and noble families, linked by marriage in the period 1570 to 1732. The author is particularly interested in the role of the women in these families. As heiresses and later the wives-and also sometimes widows-of baronets, peers, and farmers, they were able to exercise their own property rights and financial assets, as well as cultural and intellectual interests. This rich tapestry of characters includes Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway, who wrote a philosophical treatisein Latin-and corresponded with Leibniz; Lady Salisbury who spent £11,000 on a Grand Tour; and Grace Bennet who bequeathed almost £50,000 of assets invested in loans and shares to her nephew, the sixth Earl of Salisbury. The families concerned are the descendants of two younger sons of parish gentry: Thomas Bennet and Gilbert Morewood, who came to London as gentlemen apprentices of London livery companies. They and their heirs lived through turbulent times, which included the Civil War and the Republic, but were able to benefit from a wide and expanding range of different activities from which to make money, including international trade, Crown finance, banking, real estate, and investment. They used some of these funds to invest in marriage portions to finance upward social mobility through their daughters' marriages to the elite. The book is divided into four sections entitled 'Money', 'Marriage', 'Murder', and 'Metropolis', although these themes are intertwined in every chapter. As an example, the 'Murder' section relates to the death of Grace Bennet, widow of the grandson of Thomas Bennet who had inherited substantial assets from his father, grandfather, and aunt. As a wealthy widow, Grace lived alone as a recluse, spending a fraction of her £4,000 a year income. She was disliked by her neighbours for refusing to pay her poor rates, for refusing to pay tithes to the local minister, and for firing her steward. Rumour had it that she hoarded her wealth in the old-fashioned way, in gold. The local butcher was unable to resist breaking her neck and stealing the gold. He was hanged for her murder soon after. Each story of each individual in the book highlights the links between land, commerce, and finance. It shows how, over the period, attitudes changed from investing in gold as a symbol, to using idle funds to lend out at high rates of interest unsecured or on mortgage or, later in the period, in South Sea annuities and shares in the East India Company and the Bank of England. Money was also used to fund international trade and real estate investment and speculation. The role of heiresses in these overlapping stories is key to the success of these families. The author argues they have wrongly been assigned to footnotes in the larger story of the rise and fall of aristocratic families. This book shows how important the marriage portions were-with a significant number of arranged marriages-in planning a successful future. But it concentrates on how these women, when married or widowed, managed their own lives, planned their children's future, and took great care to use their wills to pass wealth on as they saw fit. The author, through the numerous case studies, argues that by the end of the seventeenth century, elite women's positions had improved, including the freedom to
Business History Review, 2021
As Karen Cook Bell ultimately concludes, they saw "landownership [as] a form of resistance, an at... more As Karen Cook Bell ultimately concludes, they saw "landownership [as] a form of resistance, an attempt to take charge of their own destinies" (p. 83).
Journal of Cultural Economy, Jan 23, 2020
Journal of the Early Republic, 2021
Journal of the Early Republic, 2019
<p>Abstract:</p><p>Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development. ... more <p>Abstract:</p><p>Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoureaux and John Joseph Wallis.</p>
Technology and Culture, 2018
The business records of textile entrepreneur and inventor Erastus Bigelow offer extraordinary det... more The business records of textile entrepreneur and inventor Erastus Bigelow offer extraordinary detail about how financing innovation worked on the ground in the antebellum United States. For the first decades of the nineteenth century, increasing numbers of Americans sought patent protection, even as patents often brought little monetary benefit or status to their holders. Historians have tended to look to the court system to account for why this was the case, even though only a small percentage of patent holders ever litigated. This article, by contrast, examines the securitization of patents, which many inventors increasingly saw as supple tools to secure research funds and monetize intellectual property. As individuals and firms bought and sold patents for cash, labor contracts, and funding for further research and development, they shaped an evolving market for intellectual property. Throughout the nineteenth century, this market offered inventors increasing opportunities to offload the risks, and sometimes the rewards, of invention.
Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks, 2019
Business History Review, 2022
Business History Review, 2018
The years surrounding the origins of the term "Manifest Destiny" were a transitional period in th... more The years surrounding the origins of the term "Manifest Destiny" were a transitional period in the history of industrialization. Historians have done much to analyze the impact of major technological shifts on business structure and management, and to connect eastern markets and westward expansion. They have paid less attention, however, to the relationship among continental geopolitics, industrial development, and frontier warfare. This article uses War Department papers, congressional reports, and manufacturers' records to examine how the arms industry developed in response to military conflict on the frontier. As public and private manufacturers altered production methods, product features, and their relationships to one another, they contributed to the industrial developments of the mid-nineteenth century.
History: Reviews of New Books, Mar 10, 2017
Enterprise and Society, 2015
Studies in American Political Development, Jan 30, 2020
During the 1810s and 1820, officials in the War Department engaged in military state building, wh... more During the 1810s and 1820, officials in the War Department engaged in military state building, which transcended partisanship and contributed to the development of executive autonomy. The process revealed the ability of the executive to shape national security, while also foreshadowing Progressive Era trends toward expertise-based bureaucratic autonomy. The activities of the Ordnance Department suggest that the connection between war and early American state building was forged in the efforts to bolster the armaments industry. Ordnance officers established autonomy partly through arms expertise, and they were not necessarily coalition builders like the late nineteenth-century Post Office and Department of Agriculture bureaucrats, especially because they generated more hostility. Thus, there were different routes by which autonomy was and is established, but in the first decades of the nineteenth century, this autonomy depended on national security and war preparations. This article uses War Department papers, armory records, and congressional debates to show how certain bureaucrats developed the ability to work against congressional limits to their functionality. Ordnance ultimately succeeded because its leaders executed a nonpartisan military agenda and demonstrated an ability to effectively manage the nation's security apparatus, especially in times of peace.
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 2019
Enterprise and Society, Nov 14, 2016
Enterprise and Society, Oct 2, 2018