American entrepreneur : the fascinating stories of the people who defined business in the United States /
America's history has always been shaped by private enterprise. Here are the stories of the people who led those businesses to success.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
American Management Association,
©2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Entrepreneurs : the essence of enterprise
- European settlement and business enterprise in the New World
- Entrepreneurs in the new nation : 1787-1840
- The entrepreneurial explosion : 1820-1850
- The rise of managers : 1850-1880
- Entrepreneurs in the age of upheaval : 1850-1880
- The big business backlash : 1870-1920
- The emergence of a consumer market : 1880-1920
- Deliverance and despair : 1920-1939
- Business in war and postwar America : 1940-1960
- Business's winter of discontent : 1960-1982
- Business in renaissance : 1982-1989
- The new economy : the 1990s
- Americans and the global market
- Epilogue : the recession returns.
