Alborn, Timothy.  Conceiving Corporations . . . .

Banner, Stuart.  Anglo-American Securities Regulation:  Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Bowman, Scott R. The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought:  Law, Power, and Ideology. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania University Press, 1996.

Brandes, Stuart D. American Welfare Capitalism, 1880-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Carruthers, Bruce G., and Terrence C. Halliday. Rescuing Business:  The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States. Clarendon, 1998.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. Inventing the Electronic Century:  The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Science Industries.  New York:  Free Press, 2001.

--------------.  Scale and Scope:  The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.  Comparative study of the U.S., Britain, and Germany.

--------------.  Strategy and Structure:  Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

--------------.  The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.  Available online at ACLS History E-Books Project (licensed access).  The now-classic analysis of the rise of "big business" (though not of corporations per se).

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., and Herman Daems, eds. Managerial Hierarchies:  Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. This has separate chapters on the U.S., Britain, France, Germany.

Davis, John P. Corporations:  A Study of the Origin and Development of Great Business Combinations and of Their Relation to the Authority of the State. Edited and Introduction by Abram Chayes. New York: Capricorn Books, 1961.

Davis, Joseph Stancliffe. Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917.  This is in four parts; we read portions of part IV on 18th-century corporations.

Dewing, Arthur S. Corporation Promotions and Reorganizations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914. Has chapters on specific companies or consolidations:  United States Leather Company, starch consolidations, glucose combination, National Cordage Company, Westinghouse, National Salt Company, United States Realty and Construction Company, Americn Bicycle Company, American Malting Company, New England Cotton Yarn Company, Cotton Duck Consolidation, International Cotton Mills Corporation, Asphalt consolidation, United States Shipbuilding Company, American Glue Company.

Dodd, Edwin Merrick. American Business Corporations Until 1860:  With Special Reference to Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954.

Dunlavy, Colleen A.  "From Citizens to Plutocrats:  Nineteenth-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation," in Constructing Corporate America:  History, Politics, Culture (Oxford University Press, 2004), eds. Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia.

--------------.  Politics and Industrialization:  Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1994.  Comparative study; chapters on regulation (2), building national associations, and technological choice.

Evans, George Heberton, Jr. Business Incorporations in the United States, 1800-1943. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1948.  A wealth of statistical information.

Fligstein, Neil. The Transformation of Corporate Control. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1990. [20th century]

Freyer, Tony Allan. Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880 to 1990. Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Grandy, Christopher. New Jersey and the Fiscal Origins of Modern American Corporation Law. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993.

Hartog, Hendrik. Public Property and Private Power:  The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870. Ithaca and London: University of North Carolina Press, Cornell Paperbacks edition, 1983.  Excellent starting point for municipal corporations.

Horn, Norbert, and Jürgen Kocka, editors. Recht und Entwicklung der Großunternehmen Im 19. und Frühen 20. Jahrhundert:  Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Rechtshistorische Untersuchungen Zur Industrialisierung in Deutschland, Frankreich, England und Den USA (= Law and the Formation of Big Enterprises in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries:  Studies in the History of Industrialization in Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979. Some essays are in English.

Hopt, K. J., et al.  Comparative Corporate Governance:  The State of the Art and Emerging Research.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1998.  Includes serveral essays on the U.S., mostly dealing with the 20th century.

Hovenkamp, Herbert. Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Hurst, James Willard. The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1970.

Jacoby, Sanford M., ed.  Masters to Managers:  Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers.  New York: Columbia University Press, c1991.

Kaysen, Carl, ed. The American Corporation Today. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kuehnl, George J. The Wisconsin Business Corporation. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1959.  Coverage extends from the territorial period to about 1875.

Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Engendering Business:  Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Lamoreaux, Naomi. The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Lefebvre-Teillard, Anne. "L'intervention de l'État dans la constitution des sociétés anonymes (1807-1867)."  Revue Historique de Droit Français 59, no. 3 (1981): 383-418.

--------------.  Lefebvre-Teillard, Anne. La Société Anonyme au XIXe siècle: du Code de Commerce à la loi de 1867, histoire d'un instrument juridique du développement capitaliste. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1985.

Linowes, David F. "The Corporation as Citizen." In The United States Constitution: Roots, Rights, and Responsibilities, edited by A. E. Dick Howard, 345-59. Washington, D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Lipartito, Kennth, and David B. Sicilia, eds.  Constructing Corporate America:  History, Politics, Culture.  Oxford and New York:  Oxford University Press, 2004.

Maier, Pauline. "The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., vol. 50 (1993): 51-84.

Mark, Gregory A. "The Role of the State in Corporate Law Formation." International Corporate Law Annual 1: 1-16.

Michie, Ranald. "Different in Name Only? the London Stock Exchange and Foreign Bourses, c. 1850-1914." In The End of Insularity: Essays in Comparative Business History, edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Geoffrey Jones, 46-68. London: Frank Cass, 1988.

McCurdy, Charles W. "American Law and the Marketing Structure of the Large Corporation, 1875-1890." Journal of Economic History 38, no. 3 (September 1978): 631-49.

Pearson, Robin.  [articles]

Roe, Mark.  Strong Managers, Weak Owners:  The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1994.

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Roy, William G. Socializing Capital:  The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Seavoy, Ronald E. The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855. Contributions in Legal Studies, vol. No. 19. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Sherman, Dennis. "Governmental Policy Toward Joint-Stock Business Organizations in Mid-Nineteenth Century France." Journal of European Economic History 3 (1974): 149-68.

Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Vernon, Raymond. The Economic and Political Consequences of Multinational Enterprise:  An Anthology. Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1972.

Wilkins, Mira. The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise:  American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970.

--------------.  The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise:  American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Harvard Studies in Business History, vol. XXVII. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1974.

--------------.  "European and North American Multinationals, 1870-1914:  Comparisons and Contrasts." In The End of Insularity:  Essays in Comparative Business History, edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Geoffrey Jones, 8-45. London: Frank Cass, 1988.

Williston . . . .

Zunz, Olivier.  Making America Corporate, 1870-1920.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.