1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000569330203316

Titolo

Domenico Lentini contemplativo e asceta in terra meridionale : atti del Convegno di studi promosso dalla Fondazione "Venerabile Domenico Lentini" : Lauria, 14-16 ottobre 1994 / Pietro Borzomati ... et al. ; a cura di Paolo Gheda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brescia : Morcelliana, 1997

ISBN

88-372-1653-X

Descrizione fisica

XV, 182 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

282.0924

Soggetti

Lentini, Domenico - Congressi - 1994

Basilicata - Storia religiosa - Congressi - 1994

Congressi - Lauria - 1994

Collocazione

II 2 1767(XIV 815)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826957303321

Autore

Porter Glenn

Titolo

The rise of big business, 1860-1920 / / Glenn Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-118-81869-5

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

American History Series

Disciplina

338.6/44/0973

Soggetti

Big business - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Foreword ; Contents ; Preface to the Third Edition ; Chapter One: What is Big Business? ; Chapter Two: The Appearance and Spread of Big Business ; The Advent of Industrialization ; Pioneers in Big Business: The Railroads ; Preconditions for Big Business ; Vertical Growth ; Horizontal Growth ; The Great Merger Wave ; Chapter Three: Corporate Triumph: "Capitalistic, Centralizing, and Mechanical" ; Bibliographical Essay ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The fundamental and explosive changes in the U.S. economy and its business system from 1860 to 1920 continue to fascinate and engage historians, economists, and sociologists. While many disagreements persist about the motivations of the actors, most scholars roughly agree on the central shifts in technologies and markets that called forth big business. Recent scholarship, however, has revealed important new insights into the changing cultural values and sensibilities of Americans who lived during the time, on women in business, on the ties between the emerging corporations and other American