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An illustrated business history of the United States / Richard Vague.
Lippincott Library HF3021 .V35 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vague, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business enterprises--United States--History.
- Business enterprises.
- United States.
- History.
- Commerce.
- United States--Commerce--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 323 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "An illustrated business history of the United States from colonial times to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 America's First Business, 1763
- 1789
- ch. 2 Manufacturing and Banking, 1790
- 1815
- ch. 3 Canals and Railroads Change Everything, 1816
- 1843
- ch. 4 Land, Gold, the Telegraph, and Oil, 1844
- 1859
- ch. 5 "And the War Came," 1860
- 1877
- ch. 6 The Gilded Age, 1878
- 1898
- ch. 7 Combination and Reform, 1899
- 1912
- ch. 8 Mass Production, Cars, and War, 1913
- 1920
- ch. 9 Excess and Depression, 1921
- 1939
- ch. 10 The Business of War and the Postwar Boom, 1940
- 1958
- ch. 11 A Business Golden Age, 1959
- 1972
- ch. 12 Oil Overdependence and Malaise, 1973
- 980
- ch. 13 The Stormy Eighties, 1981
- 1995
- ch. 14 The Digital Revolution and Financial Crisis, 1996
- 2015.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780812252897
- 0812252896
- OCLC:
- 1156421410
- Publisher Number:
- 99988731957
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