Provides a consolidated history of U.S. business and a guide to a plethora of information sources, indicating what is useful and what is not.
Includes one-page profiles of major corporations, describing their history, products and services, sales, location, executives, and number of employees.
Organized ball games were played in ancient Egypt, the Greeks created the now famous Olympic Games in 776 B.C., and Native Americans played handball in the Mayan empire and a forerunner of lacrosse in what is now the northeastern ...
This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society.
Hoover's Handbook of American Business
A chronological/topical survey of business history in America. Designed as a core text.
Introduction -- Approaches and debates -- Forms of business organization -- Functions of enterprise -- Enterprise and society.
The vast historical literature on Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal begins with the sympathetic treatments in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s trilogy The Age of Roosevelt (1957–1960): The Crisis of the Old Order, The Coming of the New ...
Black business activity has been sustained in America for almost four centuries. From the marketing and trading activities of African slaves in Colonial America to the rise of 20th-century black...
... 1850-1970 : A Geographic Interpretation , 262 American Steel Makers and the Com- ing of the Second World War , 260 ... the American Telephone Industry , 325 Anderson , Irvine H. , Jr. , 206 Anderson , Oscar E. , Jr. , 31 , 32 , 37 , 42 ...
This is the epic story of America's entrepreneurs, all the way from the first settlers to the "New Economy" of today.