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An illustrated business history of the United States Richard Vague
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HF 3021 .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--Commerce--History.
- United States.
- 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:
- Chapter 1. America's first business, 1763-1789
- Chapter 2. Manufacturing and banking, 1790-1815
- Chapter 3. Canals and railroads change everything, 1816-1843
- Chapter 4. Land, gold, the telegraph, and oil, 1844-1859
- Chapter 5. "And the War came," 1860-1877
- Chapter 6. The Gilded Age, 1878-1898
- Chapter 7. Combination and reform, 1899-1912
- Chapter 8. Mass production, cars, and war, 1913-1920
- Chapter 9. Excess and depression, 1921-1939
- Chapter 10. The business of war and the postwar boom, 1940-1958
- Chapter 11. A business Golden Age, 1959-1972
- Chapter 12. Oil overdependence and malaise, 1973-1980
- Chapter 13. The stormy eighties, 1981-1995
- Chapter 14. The digital revolution and financial crisis, 1996-2015.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line: "Bank of North America print, 1900." Helen C. Perkins Scrapbook collection [collection v72]. Digital Library record 846. Page 14.
- ISBN:
- 9780812252897
- 0812252896
- OCLC:
- 1156421410
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