The birth of big business in the United States, 1860-1914 commercial, extractive, and industrial enterprise /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitten, David O.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Whitten, Bessie E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • American business in the Civil War
  • Giant business in communications and transportation
  • The commercial response to a mass market
  • The United Fruit Company
  • The Singer Sewing Machine Company
  • Giant farms
  • The American Sugar Refining Company
  • The American Tobacco Company
  • The forest products industry
  • Mining
  • Standard Oil Corporation
  • United States Steel Corporation
  • The meat packers.