| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Paul Erker. Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und die amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2005. Pp. 710 €98.00.
Paul Erker's new book is a comparative study of the German and American tire industries from the late nineteenth century to the present. He focuses on the two companies he considers "prime movers," B F Goodrich (founded in 1870) and Continental (founded in 1871). These are also, as Erker notes, the only two major tire companies for which extensive archival sources are available; little exists of records for Dunlop, Goodyear, or U.S. Rubber, whereas neither Firestone nor Michelin files are at this time fully open to historians.	1
This book is, in many respects, comparative history at its best. Although Continental and Goodrich are focal points, Erker situates both companies in their national and global contexts. Continental's primary rivals before World War II were Dunlop and Michelin, whereas Goodrich slowly lost ground to Goodyear and Firestone, not to mention U.S. Rubber and General Tire. Erker brings together extant sources, both primary and secondary, about those other companies as well, making particularly good use of both American and European trade journals. In the end, the book is really a comprehensive study of the world tire industry.	. . .

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