Edward J. Balleisen CV

Professor Emeritus of History

History

eballeis@duke.edu

Box 90003, Durham, NC 27708-0719

216 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

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Scholarly Works - Book reviews

Regulatory Retrospection amid the Smashing of Expertise

Book review The Regulatory Review · April 29, 2025 Link to item Cite

Regulatory Legacies and the Potential Limits of Trump 2.0

Book review The Regulatory Review · March 5, 2025 Link to item Cite

Review of "The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America" by Michael Pettit

Book review Law and History Review · 2014 Cite

Review of "Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America" by Jonathan Levy

Book review American Historical Review · 2013 Cite

Review essay on "Andrew Carnegie" by David Nasaw and "Mellon: An American Life" by David Cannadine

Book review Historically Speaking · 2008 Cite

Review of "A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making the United States" by Stephen Mihm

Book review Business History Review · 2008 Cite

Review essay on "Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine" by Roy Kreitner

Book review Law and Politics Book Review · August 2007 Cite

Review of "A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business" by Rowena Olegario

Book review Journal of American History · 2007 Cite

Review of "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America" by Scott Sandage

Book review Journal of the Early Republic · 2006 Cite

Review of "Boosters, hustlers, and speculators: Entrepreneurial culture and the rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883" by Jocelyn Wills

Book review American Historical Review · 2006 Full text Link to item Cite

Review of "The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence" by T.H. Breen

Book review Business History Review · 2005 Cite

Review of "Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America" by David Skeel

Book review Law and History Review · 2004 Cite

Review of "Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American independence" by Bruce Mann

Book review Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography · 2004 Link to item Cite

Review of "American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States" by Jonathan Glickstein

Book review American Historical Review · 2003 Full text Link to item Cite

The Celebrated Showman Unmasked, Review Essay of The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death and Memory in Barnum’s America by Benjamin Reiss

Book review Reviews in American History · 2002 Full text Link to item Cite

Review of "Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-up in Nineteenth-Century England" by V. Markham Lester

Book review Business History Review · 1996 Full text Link to item Cite