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The entrepreneurial spirit of African American inventors / Patricia Carter Sluby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sluby, Patricia Carter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American business enterprises--History.
- African American business enterprises.
- African American inventors--History.
- African American inventors.
- Inventions--United States--History.
- Inventions.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Early Inventive Spirit; Chapter 2. Self-Help-a Beginning: Business in the Making; Chapter 3. Following Their Passion-in the Marketplace; Chapter 4. Commercialized Concepts: Capital and Enterprises of Today; Chapter 5. Epilogue; Appendix: Roster of African American Patentees: Utility and Design Grants from 1821; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400646690
- 9786613017475
- 9781283017473
- 1283017474
- 9780313363368
- 0313363366
- OCLC:
- 706137837
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