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An illustrated business history of the United States

"An illustrated business history of the United States from colonial times to the present"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vague, Richard, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021].
Subjects and Genres:
Business enterprises > United States > History.
United States > Commerce > History.
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Table of 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.

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