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The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914

Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise

By: David O. Whitten,Bessie E. Whitten

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The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914

Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise

By: David O. Whitten,Bessie E. Whitten

The economic and cultural roots of contemporary American business can be traced directly to developments in the era between the Civil War and World War I. The physical expansion of the country combined with development of transportation and communication infrastructures to create a free market of vast proportion and businesses capable of capitalizing on the accompanying economies of scale, through higher productivity, lower costs, and broader distribution. The Birth of Big Business in the United States illuminates the conditions that changed the face of American business and the national economy, giving rise to such titans as Standard Oil, United States Steel, American Tobacco, and Sears, Roebuck, as well as institutions such as the United States Post Office. During this period, commercial banking and law also evolved, and, as the authors argue, business and government were not antagonists but partners in creating mass consumer markets, process innovations, and regulatory frameworks to support economic growth. The Birth of Big Business in the United States is not only an incisive account of modern business development but a fascinating glimpse into a dynamic period of American history.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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031332395X

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9780313323959

Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services

A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide

By: David O. Whitten

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Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services

A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide

By: David O. Whitten

The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.

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538

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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156750972X

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9781567509724

A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University

By: David O. Whitten

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A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University

By: David O. Whitten

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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100

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Taylor & Francis

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2881245579

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9782881245572

Slavery and the Commerce Power

How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War

By: David L. Lightner

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Slavery and the Commerce Power

How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War

By: David L. Lightner

Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America, his politics and personality, and how he came to influence not only Jewish debate but also wider religious and cultural debates in the postwar decades. A worthy sequel to his widely-praised biography of Heschel's early years, Edward Kaplan's new volume draws on previously unseen archives, FBI files, interviews with people who knew Heschel, and analyses of his extensive writings. Kaplan explores Heschel's shy and private side, his spiritual radicalism, and his vehement defence of the Hebrew prophets' ideal of absolute integrity and truth in ethical and political life. Of special interest are Heschel's interfaith activities, including a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican II, his commitment to civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., his views on the state of Israel, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. A tireless challenger to spiritual and religious complacency, Heschel stands as a dramatically important witness.

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240

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Yale University Press

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0300135165

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9780300135169

Andrew Durnford

A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South

By: David O. Whitten

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Andrew Durnford

A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South

By: David O. Whitten

Had Durnford done no more than build a sugar plantation out of the wilderness with black slave labor, his accounts would be valuable, but he also practiced medicine, recounting his experiences in a journal and in letters to McDonogh. The Durnford volume offers singular accounts of American life and labor in the first half of the nineteenth century. Had he been white, the narrative would be of inestimable value, but because Durnford was black, free, and a medical practitioner, his life stands as a rare example of a man and a culture adjusting to peculiar social orders.

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174

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Transaction Publishers

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1412817250

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9781412817257

Democracy in Desperation

The Depression of 1893

By: Douglas Steeples,David O. Whitten

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Democracy in Desperation

The Depression of 1893

By: Douglas Steeples,David O. Whitten

The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history. Devastating broad sections of the country like a tidal wave, the depression forced the nation to change its way of life and altered the pattern and pace of national development ever after. The depression served as the setting for the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial society, exposed grave economic and social problems, sharply tested the country's resourcefulness, reshaped popular thought, and changed the direction of foreign policy. It was a crucible in which the elements of the modern United States were clarified and refined. Yet no study to date has examined the depression in its entirety. This is the first book to treat these disparate matters in detail, and to trace and interpret the business contraction of the 1890s in the context of national economic, political, and social development. Steeples and Whitten first explain the origins of the depression, measure its course, and interpret the business recovery, giving full coverage to structural changes in the economy; namely, the growing importance of manufacturing, emergence of new industries, consolidation of business, and increasing importance of finance capitalism. The remainder of the book examines the depression's impact on society—discussing, for example, unemployment, birth rate, health, and education—and on American culture, politics and international relations. Placing the business collapse at the center of the scene, the book shows how the depression was a catalyst for ushering in a more modern America.

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276

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313002207

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9780313002205

Creativity 36

By: David E. Carter

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Creativity 36

By: David E. Carter

This thirty-sixth edition in the Creativity series displays the best and brightest in advertising and design work from creative professionals around the world. Creativity 36, which features more than 1,000 color photographs and illustrations, covers dozens of categories in both the consumer and trade markets, including advertisements, posters, billboards, brochures, catalogs, calendars, promotional items, corporate identity manuals, magazine covers, web sites, and much more. Creative professionals looking for inspiration, or anyone with an interest in quality graphic design, will find Creativity 36 an invaluable resource.

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HarperDes

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0061255726

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9780061255724

Democracy in Desperation

The Depression of 1893

By: Douglas Steeples,David O. Whitten

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The Depression of 1893

By: Douglas Steeples,David O. Whitten

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The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914

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A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University

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Slavery and the Commerce Power

Slavery and the Commerce Power

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Andrew Durnford

Democracy in Desperation

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Creativity 36

Creativity 36

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