The Economy

by Shumsky,Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780815321897
• ISBN10: 0815321899
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
Business Innovation and Social Change: The Career of Alexander Brown after the War of 1812	p. 1
Geographical Structure in Nineteenth-Century Urban Retailing: Milwaukee, 1836-90	p. 15
Hulbert Harrington Warner and the Perfect Pitch: Sold Hope; Made Millions	p. 37
Neiman-Marcus: The Beginning	p. 74
Lutey Brothers Marketeria: America's First Self-Service Grocers	p. 88
Regional Shopping Malls: Strengths and Weaknesses as Suburban Foci	p. 97
Flour Milling in the Growth of Baltimore, 1750-1830	p. 104
The Rise of the Waltham-Lowell System and Some Thoughts on the Political Economy of Modernization in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts	p. 117
A Cotton Manufacturing Village: Rockdale, PA, 1825-1865	p. 159
Foundations for Industrialization, 1835-1880	p. 184
The Changing Location of the Clothing Industry: A Link to the Social Geography of Baltimore in the Nineteenth Century	p. 203
"Something More than Packers"	p. 222
Technological and Managerial Innovation: The Johnson Company, 1883-1898	p. 230
Scientific Management in Transition: Frederick W. Taylor at Johnstown, 1896	p. 254
Detroit Today: Locked into the Past	p. 271
Manufacturing Headquarters in a Post-Industrial Urban Context	p. 281
The Maturing Urban System in the United States, 1840-1910	p. 300
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange: The Formative Years, 1871-1880	p. 321
The Chicago Board of Trade, The Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, and the Great Bucket Shop War, 1882-1905	p. 341
New York City Mutual Savings Bank Portfolio Management and Trustee Objectives	p. 359
Maggie Lena Walker and the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company	p. 379
The Urban-Suburban Investment-Disinvestment Process: Consequences for Older Neighborhoods	p. 385
New York's Primacy within the American Banking System	p. 395
Acknowledgments	p. 405
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