Readings in American Business History

by Coclanis, Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9780787293604
• ISBN10: 0787293601
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co

Table of Contents

``Thomas Mun Urges England...'' source: Stuart Bruchey, The Colonial Merchant: Sources and Readings (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966), pp. 46-54	1	(15)
``The Navigation Acts'' source: Bruchey, The Colonial Merchant, pp. 57-67	15	(14)
``The Tempo of Mercantile Life in Colonial America,'' Business History Review 33 (Autumn 1959): 277-299	29	(24)
Arthur H. Cole
``Henry Laurens, Charleston Factor.'' source: Bruchey, The Colonial Merchant, pp. 146-51	53	(8)
``Commercial Documents.'' source: Bruchey, The Colonial Merchant, pp. 193-196	61	(6)
``Articles of Confederation.'' [U.S. government record]	67	(12)
``The Constitution of the United States.'' [U.S. government record]	79	(24)
``Engineering the Erie Canal,'' Audacity (Summer 1986)	103	(10)
John Tarkov
``The Brief, Swift Reign of the Clippers,'' Audacity (Fall 1989)	113	(10)
Nicholas Dean
The Man in the Middle: The Black Slave Driver,'' American Heritage (October 1979)	123	(14)
Randall M. Miller
``The Hodgdon Letters.'' source: Thomas Dublin, ed., Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860, 2d ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 39-57	137	(18)
``Introduction,'' in The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in America (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977), pp. 1-12	155	(14)
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
``The Beginnings of `Big Business' in American Industry,'' Business History Review, 33 (Spring 1959): 1-31	169	(38)
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 3-24	207	(24)
Philip Scranton
``The Black Businessman in the Postwar South: North Carolina, 1865-1880,'' Business History Review 63 (Spring 1989): 61-87	231	(26)
Robert C. Kenzer
``Frederick Winslow Taylor: The Messiah of Time and Motion,'' American Heritage 30 (Aug/Sept. 1979): 26-39	257	(21)
Spencer Klaw
``Who Built the Pyramids?'' source: Studs Terkel, Working (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974): pp. 1-10	278	(9)
Poems on Industrial Life source: Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life, eds. Peter Oresick and Nicholas Coles (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), pp. 1, 7-18, 24-25, 43-45, 92, 116, 144-145, 163-165, 228-230, 234-235	287	(16)
``Less Work for Mother?'' American Heritage 38 (Sept/Oct. 1987): 68-76	303	(14)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
``The Rise of the Interstates,'' American Heritage (September 1987)	317	(14)
T.A. Heppenheimer
``Why Businessmen Distrust Their State: The Political Consciousness of American Corporate Executives,'' British Journal of Political Science 8 (January 1978): 45-78	331
David Vogel