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Walter A. Friedman

American Business History: A Very Short Introduction

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By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a business civilization. President Coolidge in 1925 said, The chief business of the American people is business. More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive manufactory as the embodiment of America: While Athens had its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit... How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America?This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-062250-3
  • EAN: 9780190622503
  • Produktnummer: 34171526
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'621 KB
  • Abbildungen: 10 illustrations

Über den Autor


Walter A. Friedman is a historian and lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he directs the Business History Initiative and curriculum development at the Case Method Project. He is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. He is a past president of the Business History Conference.

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