02814nam 2200601 450 991079115770332120200520144314.01-118-81869-5(CKB)2550000001349275(EBL)1776327(SSID)ssj0001378305(PQKBManifestationID)11844072(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378305(PQKBWorkID)11329643(PQKB)11710708(MiAaPQ)EBC1776327(Au-PeEL)EBL1776327(CaPaEBR)ebr10925524(CaONFJC)MIL640769(OCoLC)890072013(MiAaPQ)EBC7147558(Au-PeEL)EBL7147558(EXLCZ)99255000000134927520140912h20062006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe rise of big business, 1860-1920 /Glenn PorterThird edition.Wheeling, Illinois :Harlan Davidson, Inc.,2006.©20061 online resource (176 p.)American History SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-88295-240-4 1-322-09518-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 American history series (Arlington Heights, Ill.)Big businessUnited StatesHistoryBig businessHistory.338.6/44/0973Porter Glenn1563340MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791157703321The rise of big business, 1860-19203831680UNINA