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Credit Nancy Koehn with skillfully selecting, organizing, and then editing a wealth of material that originally appeared in The New York Times from May 11, 1869. Exploring the people, trends, and pivotal events that have shaped business in America, Koehn has organized the book around a number of important themes, including:The rise of big business-the advent of mass production, a national market, and the modern U.S. economy. Wall Street-its origins,...

"Americans love "this year's model," relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to American business, where innovation and change stoke the engines of economic energy. To really understand the history of business in America, he argues, we must understand the intertwining dynamics of social and business values." "Capitalizing on Change sheds light on the evolution of business organization...

In the past several decades there has been a significant increase in our knowledge of the economic history of the United States. This has come about in part because of the development in economic history, most particularly with the emergence of the statistical and analytical contributions of the new economic history, and in part because of related developments in social, labor, and political history that have important implications for the understanding...

Lively and anecdotal in style, this volume offers a general account of the industrial and economic, social and political history of the period from 1865 to 1901. Cashman focuses on the amazing developments in industry during the period, and describes the complementary social history of immigration, urbanization and labor unions, and the shift from a rural agrarian nation to an urban industrual one. He also covers the political stories of Reconstruction...

Designed to answer such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers behavior? This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.

In this lively contribution to public dialogue on macroeconomic policy, Nossiter presents a journalistic look at economic policy across a span of 60 years, with particular focus on the last few decades. The author addresses with style and wit such liberal concerns as the failure of monetarism, the defense establishment, and growing inequality, citing illustrations rather than statistics. ISBN 0-06-435853-4: $22.50.

"Economic themes underlie many aspects of Native American history from the fur trade, the devastating impact of European diseases, and the taking of Native American land to the current issues of uranium mining on Navajo land and casino gambling. Yet this is the first encyclopedia to analyze Native American history against an economic background. Describing the impact of Euro-American settlement from a Native American perspective, the book profiles...

The Industrial Revolution has been, and continues to be, the focus of massive historiographical as well as historical enquiry. This collection includes reappraisals by Phyllis Deane and by Francois Crouzet of their classic accounts of industrialization in Britain and in France, and more generally broaches the wider issue of 'new approaches' which have been emerging for the understanding of the industrializing process in nations where it came somewhat...