Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791: Correspondence: First Session, September-November 1789, Volume 17 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080187162X ISBN 13: 9780801871627

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Japanese automobiles dominate the Southeast Asian car market and, although European automobile policies have for a long time been highly discriminatory towards Japanese imports, their production methods have been quickly implemented by European makers and suppliers. This study explains the various influences of the Japanese automobile industry on industrial development in both Southeast Asia and Europe. In Part I, contributors examine industrial organization and policy issues in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, looking at Japanese investment and the relative policy successes and failures in these host countries. Part II looks at skill formation systems in the Japanese dominated automobile industry in Southeast Asia and in Part III the authors focus on the EU and the very different influence of Japanese investment. These discussions suggest that Japanese assemblers by no means stick to restricted business relations with their traditional suppliers but are open to cooperation with non-Japanese firms.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlene Bangs Bickford is director and coeditor of The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791. Kenneth R. Bowling serves as coeditor of the DHFFC. William C. diGiacomantonio and Helen E. Veit, are associate editors of the DHFFC.

Review:

"A monument of careful yet easily usable scholarship. The formal legislative record always needs to be supplemented by the evidence of personal correspondence. This correspondence is in its own important way a memorial to a crucial moment in the translation of the constitution from founding text into functioning document, because it helped to establish the links necessary to maintain loyalty to the new government. The completion of the DHFFC will fill in one of the most exciting and momentous chapters in American political history."

(Jack Rakove, Stanford University)

"One of the most imaginative and valuable editorial projects ever undertaken for any aspect of American history."

(John M. Murrin, Princeton University)

"A wealth of materials. For the first time, a significant part of the early history of Congress will be made accessible to legal scholars, a fact that I believe will significantly inform their discourse."

(Christine Desan, Harvard University Law School)

"This complete and well-edited record of the First Federal Congress is a model documentary edition. Historians of the early republic owe thanks to the editors and publisher of this exemplary collection."

(Kenneth R. Stevens Journal of the Early Republic)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 080187162X
• ISBN 13: 9780801871627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 696
• Editor: Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R. Bow, Helen E. Veit, William DiGiacomantonio