Larry Schweikart

Larry Earl Schweikart (né le 21 Avril 1951 à Mesa, dans l'Arizona, aux Etats-Unis) est un historien et professeur d'histoire à l'Université de Dayton. Il est l'auteur de plus d'une douzaine de livres qui portent sur l'histoire du système bancaire et de l'esprit d'entreprise aux Etats-Unis.

Larry Schweikart est allé à l'université de l'Arizona State University (BA en science politique en 1972), où il a également complété un Master en histoire (1980). Il a obtenu son Ph.D. en histoire de l'Université de Californie, à Santa Barbara, en 1983. Au moment où il a obtenu son diplôme, Larry Schweikart avait déjà écrit deux livres et plusieurs articles universitaires. Après une année à l'Université du Wisconsin, il a obtenu un poste à l'Université de Dayton, où il est resté depuis.

Publications

• 1981, "You Count It: The Birth of Banking in Arizona", Journal of Arizona History, Vol XXII, Fall, pp349–368

• 1982, "History of Banking in Arizona", University of Arizona Press

• 1984,
  • a. avec D.D. Dalgleish, "Trident", Southern Illinois University Press
  • b. dir., "Banking in the West: A Collection of Essays", Sunflower University Press
  • c. "Brophy vs. Douglas: A Case Study in Frontier Corporate Control", Journal of the West, Vol XXIII, April, pp49–55
  • d. avec Richard Burg, "Stand By to Repel Historians: Piracy and Modern Historical Scholarship", The Historian, Vol XLVI, March, pp219–234

• 1985,
  • a. "Alabama’s Antebellum Banks: New Interpretations, New Evidence", The Alabama Review, XXXVIII, June, pp202–221
  • b. "Secession and Southern Banks", Civil War History, Vol XXXI, June, pp111–125

• 1986,
  • a. "Tennessee’s Antebellum Banks, Part I", Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol XLV, Summer, pp119–132
  • b. "Private Bankers in the Antebellum South", Southern Studies, Vol XXV, Summer, pp125–134
  • c. "Polar Revisionism and the Peary Claim: The Diary of Robert E. Peary", The Historian, Vol XLVIII, May, pp341–358

• 1987,
  • a. "Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction", Louisiana State University Press
  • b. "Southern Banking and Economic Growth in the Antebellum Period: A Reassessment", Journal of Southern History, Vol LIII, February, pp19–36
  • c. "Collusion or Competition: Another Look at Arizona Banking in the Postwar Period, 1950-1964", Journal of Arizona History, Vol XXVIII, Summer, pp189–200
  • d. "Antebellum Banking in Arkansas: New Evidence, New Interpretations", Southern Studies, Vol XXVI, Fall, pp188–201
  • e. "Entrepreneurial Aspects of Antebellum Banking", In: C. Joseph Pusateri et Henry Dethloff, dir., "American Business History: Case Studies, New York: Harlan Davidson, pp122–139

• 1988,
  • a. "Jacksonian Ideology, Currency Control, and `Central Banking’: A Reappraisal", The Historian, Vol LI, November, pp781-802
  • b. "Banking in Early New Mexico from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties", New Mexico Historical Review, Vol LXIII, January, pp1–22

• 1989, avec Lynne Doti, "Financing the Postwar Housing Boom in Phoenix and Los Angeles, 1945-60", Pacific Historical Review, Vol LVIII, May, pp173–194

• 1990,
  • a. avec John G. Sproat, "Making Change: South Carolina Banking in the Twentieth Century", Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman
  • b. dir., "Encyclopedia of American Business History: Banking and Finance, to 1913", New York: Facts on File
  • c. dir., "Encyclopedia of American Business History: Banking and Finance, 1913-1989", New York: Facts on File
  • d. avec Charles Calomiris, "The Panic of 1857: Causes, Transmission, and Containment", Journal of Economic History, LI, December, pp807–834
  • e. "Financing Urban Growth: Entrepreneurial Creativity and Western Cities, 1945-75", Urban Studies, Vol XXVI, February, pp177–186

• 1991, avec Lynne Doti, "Banking in the American West from Gold Rush to Deregulation", University of Oklahoma Press

• 1992,
  • a. "A New Perspective on George Wingfield and Nevada Banking, 1920-33", Nevada Historical Quarterly, XXXV, vol 35, Winter, pp162–176
  • b. "American Commercial Banking: A Bibliographic Survey", Business History Review, vol 65, Fall, pp606–661

• 1994, "California Bankers", New York: Simon & Schuster

• 1997, "Banking and Finance in North America, 1607-1996", In: Alice Teichova et. al., dir., "Banking, Trade, and Industry", Cambridge University Press, pp297-314

• 1999,
  • a. dir., "Voices of UD: Historical Interpretations of the University of Dayton", Dayton, Ohio: University of Dayton
  • b. avec Lynne Pierson Doti, "From Hard Money to Branch Banking: California Banking in the Gold Rush Economy", In: James Rawls et Richard J. Orsi, dir., "A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California", special edition of California History, Winter, pp209-232

• 2000,
  • a. "Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of Business in the United States", Ft. Worth, Tex.: Harcourt
  • b. "Downsizing, 1860s-Style: Lessons from the Pony Express. The Telegraph Put Mail Carriers Out of Work Overnight", The Freeman, Août

• 2001,
  • a. "The Non-Existent Frontier Bank Robbery", The Freeman, Janvier
  • b. "How the Computer Emancipated the American Corporation. The Information Age Empowers Workers and Disempowers Managers", The Freeman, Mars, Vol 51, n°3
  • c. "Deposit Insurance versus Branch Banking: The S&L Debacle. What Sealed the S&Ls' Fate?", The Freeman, Juillet, Vol 51, n°7
  • d. "Wire and Rails: Comparing the Web and Railroads", The Freeman, December, Vol 51, n°12, pp22-26 [lire en ligne] (L'auteur conclut de sa comparaison entre le web et les chemins de fer transcontinentaux qu'ils n'ont peu de choses en commun)

• 2002,
  • a. "Lead Balloons. Lawsuits Are the Latest Source of State Government Revenue", The Freeman, Mars, Vol 52, n°3
  • b. "Race, Culture, and the Digital Divide. The Racial “Digital Divide” Is Largely a Myth", The Freeman, Mai, Vol 52, n°5
  • c. "A Tale of Two Tariffs. Tariffs Do Not Protect Anything", The Freeman, Juin, Vol 52, n°6
  • d. "Nickel and Damned: Barbara Ehrenreich's View of America. Human Success Stories Reveal a Different Reality Than Ehrenreich's Minimum-Wage Hell", The Freeman, Juillet, Vol 52, n°7
  • e. ""Emeril" Economics. Critics Despise the Application of the Market to Any Area of Culture", The Freeman, Octobre, Vol 52, n°11
  • f. "Buffaloed: The Myth and Reality of Bison in America", The Freeman, Décembre, Vol 52, n°12

• 2003,
  • a. avec Bradley J. Birzer, "The American West", Wiley Desk Reference series, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 9780471401384
  • b. "Opportunity Knocks Late. America's Business Landscape Blooms with People Who Hit Their Stride After 50", The Freeman, Février, Vol 53, n°2
  • c. "Berry Gordy Jr. and the Original "Black Label". Motown Records' Founder Gave America Some of its Best Music Moments", The Freeman, Mai, Vol 53, n°5 (voir Berry Gordy)
  • d. "Title IX and the Law of Unintended Consequences. How Legislation Intended to Increase Fitness Did the Opposite", The Freeman, Octobre, Vol 53, n°10

• 2004, avec Michael Allen, "A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror", New York: Sentinel, ISBN 9781595230010

• 2006,
  • a. "America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror", New York: Sentinel, ISBN 9781595230218
  • b. "A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror. A Readable and Persuasive Narrative", The Freeman, Janvier, Vol 56, n°1

• 2008, "48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School)", New York: Sentinel, ISBN 9781595230515

• 2010,
  • a. "Seven Events That Made America America: And Proved That the Founding Fathers Were Right All Along", New York: Sentinel, ISBN 9781595230645
  • b. avec Lynne Pierson Doti, "American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Stories of the People Who Defined Business in the United States", New York: AMACOM, American Management Association, ISBN 9780814414118

• 2011,
  • a. avec Dave Dougherty, Michael Allen, "The Patriot's History Reader: Essential Documents for Every American", New York: Sentinel, ISBN 9781595230782
  • b. "What Would the Founders Say?: A Patriot's Answers to America's Most Pressing Problems", New York: Sentinel, ISBN 9781595230744

• 2012, avec Dave Dougherty, "A Patriot's History of the Modern World: From America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb : 1898-1945", New York: Sentinel; Penguin Group (USA), ISBN 9781595230898

Littérature secondaire

• 2006, Burton Folsom, Commentaire du livre de Larry Schweikart et Michael Allen, dir., "A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror", The Freeman, Janvier

• 2010, Maury Klein, commentaire du livre de Larry Schweikart et Lynne Pierson Doti, "American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Stories of the People Who Defined Business in the United States", Business History Review, Vol 84, n°3, pp627-628

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