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Mary Yeager


Professor Emeritus


Contact Information

Email    YEAGER@UCLA.EDU
Office  7381 Bunche Hall
Phone  310-825-3489

Degrees

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1973

Selected Publications

Competition and Regulation: The Dynamics of Oligopoly in the Meat Packing Industry, 1870-1920. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981. (1-296)

"Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson," Enterprise & Society, vol. 2, no. 4(Dec.2001), 687-768.

The Protection Makers: A History of Protection in the International Steel Trade, work in progress.

"Bureaucracy", Encyclopedia of American Economic History, Vol. 3, 895-926.

Mary A. Yeager, ed. Women in Business, 3 vols., The International Library of Critical Writings in Business History, Elgar Reference Collection (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 1999.

Mary A. Yeager, "Will There Ever Be A Feminist Business History?", in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business, v. 1, pp. 3-43.

Mary Yeager Kujovich, "The Refrigerator Car and the Growth of the American Dressed Beef Industry," Business History Review,, Vol. XLIV, No. 4 (Winter 1970), 460-482.

"Trade Protection as an International Commodity: The Case of Steel, 1930-1980," Journal of Economic History, XL(1)(March 1980), pp. 33-42.

Works in Progress:

"The Protection Makers: Steel and the State in Latin America and the United States" (book length manuscript, comparing the role of government in the industrial development of Mexico, Brazil and the United States.)

Research

American Economic History

Graduate Students

Previous Courses by Term

2018 Fall Quarter

Topics in History: U.S.

2018 Spring Quarter

Topics in History: U.S.

2018 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2017 Fall Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2017 Spring Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2017 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2016 Fall Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2015 Spring Quarter

Introduction to U.S. History: 20th Century

2015 Winter Quarter

Variable Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies

2014 Fall Quarter

Variable Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2014 Spring Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2014 Winter Quarter

Topics in World History

2013 Fall Quarter

Topics in World History

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

Topics in History: U.S.

2013 Spring Quarter

Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars

Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History

American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2012 Fall Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2012 Spring Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2012 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2011 Fall Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2010 Spring Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2010 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2009 Fall Quarter

Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2009 Spring Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2009 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

2008 Fall Quarter

Collaborative Research Seminar: American History

2008 Spring Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to the Present

Introduction to U.S. History: 20th Century

2008 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- U.S.

2007 Spring Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to the Present

Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: U.S.

2007 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: U.S.

Topics in History: U.S.

2006 Spring Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to the Present

Introduction to U.S. History: 20th Century

2006 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: U.S.

2005 Spring Quarter

Introduction to U.S. History: 20th Century

2005 Winter Quarter

American Economic History, 1910 to the Present

Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: U.S.

2004 Fall Quarter

American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

2002 Winter Quarter

American Economic History: 1910 to the Present

Undergraduate Seminar

2001 Fall Quarter

American Economic History: 1790 to 1910

Undergraduate Seminar

2001 Spring Quarter

American Economic History: 1910 to the Present

Introduction to Development Studies: Economic Development and Culture Change

2001 Winter Quarter

American Economic History: 1790 to 1910

Undergraduate Seminar

2000 Fall Quarter

Business Enterprise and American Culture

1999 Winter Quarter

American Economic History: 1910 to the Present

Undergraduate Seminar

1998 Fall Quarter

American Economic History: 1790 to 1910

Introduction to Development Studies: Economic Development and Culture Change

1998 Spring Quarter
1998 Winter Quarter

Previous Courses by Course

HIST C191D
Topics in History: U.S.

2018 Fall Quarter

2018 Spring Quarter

HIST 141B
American Economic History, 1910 to Present

2018 Winter Quarter

2017 Winter Quarter

2013 Spring Quarter

2012 Spring Quarter

2010 Spring Quarter

2009 Spring Quarter

HIST 141A
American Economic History, 1790 to 1910

2017 Fall Quarter

2016 Fall Quarter

2012 Fall Quarter

2012 Winter Quarter

2010 Winter Quarter

2009 Winter Quarter

2008 Winter Quarter

2007 Winter Quarter

2006 Winter Quarter

2004 Fall Quarter

HIST 191D
Capstone Seminar: History -- U.S.

2017 Fall Quarter

2017 Spring Quarter

2016 Fall Quarter

2014 Fall Quarter

2014 Spring Quarter

2013 Fall Quarter

2012 Fall Quarter

2012 Winter Quarter

2011 Fall Quarter

2010 Winter Quarter

2009 Fall Quarter

HIST 246C
Introduction to U.S. History: 20th Century

2015 Spring Quarter

2008 Spring Quarter

2006 Spring Quarter

2005 Spring Quarter

HIST C208B
Variable Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies

2015 Winter Quarter

HIST C101B
Variable Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies

2015 Winter Quarter

HIST C101A
Variable Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies

2014 Fall Quarter

HIST C208A
Variable Topics: Interdisciplinary Studies

2014 Fall Quarter

HIST 101
Topics in World History

2014 Winter Quarter

2013 Fall Quarter

HIST 201H
Topics in History: U.S.

2013 Fall Quarter

2007 Winter Quarter

HIST 19
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars

2013 Spring Quarter

HIST 97D
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History

2013 Spring Quarter

HIST 251A
Collaborative Research Seminar: American History

2008 Fall Quarter

HIST 141B
American Economic History, 1910 to the Present

2008 Spring Quarter

2007 Spring Quarter

2006 Spring Quarter

2005 Winter Quarter

HIST 191D
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- U.S.

2008 Winter Quarter

HIST 191D
Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: U.S.

2007 Spring Quarter

2007 Winter Quarter

2006 Winter Quarter

2005 Winter Quarter

HIST 197U
Undergraduate Seminar

2002 Winter Quarter

HIST 149B
American Economic History: 1910 to the Present

2002 Winter Quarter

2001 Spring Quarter

1999 Winter Quarter

HIST 197C
Undergraduate Seminar

2001 Fall Quarter

HIST 149A
American Economic History: 1790 to 1910

2001 Fall Quarter

2001 Winter Quarter

1998 Fall Quarter

INT DEV 100A
Introduction to Development Studies: Economic Development and Culture Change

2001 Spring Quarter

1998 Fall Quarter

HIST 197K
Undergraduate Seminar

2001 Winter Quarter

HIST 255A
Business Enterprise and American Culture

2000 Fall Quarter

HIST 197N
Undergraduate Seminar

1999 Winter Quarter

HIST 149B

1998 Spring Quarter

HIST 149A

1998 Winter Quarter

HIST 197W

1998 Winter Quarter