Corporate History category: 769 books
by Adrian Zink
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Kansas' storied past is filled with fascinating firsts, humorous coincidences and intriguing characters. A man who had survived a murderous proslavery massacre in 1858 hanged his would-be executioner five years later. A wealthy Frenchman utilized his utopian ideals to create an award-winning silk-producing...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Volume Two of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic.
Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals....
Still Turning
A History of Aermotor Windmills
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills...
by Helen Kleberg Groves, Bill Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
King Ranch. The name is embroidered in the tapestry of Texas, rising from the sunbaked coastal plains in the infancy of the state itself. King Ranch is the inspiration of legends and speculation, tradition and history. Rawhide-tough through drought, Indian attacks, Civil War, and the Great Depression,...
A History of Iowa Wine
Vines on the Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Iowa has a history with grapevines that goes back more than a century. New York lawyer Hiram Barney obtained a tract of land in southeast Iowa as part of the Half-Breed program following the American Indian Wars and created the White Elk Winery. German settlers in Amana tended community vineyards...
Eaton's
The Trans-Canada Store
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Explore the broad, fascinating history of the Eaton's department store empire. Exhaustively researched and thoughtfully written by a prominent department store historian. Canada's largest and most well-known department store, Eaton's was an icon of Canadian culture. From its founding in 1869 to its...
The Company
A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.
Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until...
Ambitious Brew
The Story of American Beer
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
A “fascinating and well-documented social history” of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (Chicago Tribune).
Grab a pint and settle in with Ambitious**Brew, the fascinating, first-ever history of American beer. Included here are...
The Men Who Loved Trains
The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2006
An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: “This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride.” —Chicago Tribune
A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America’s railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who...
The Hellhound of Wall Street
How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put...
by Bruce McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The History of Eckler Ltd. - A graduate in commerce and finance from the University of Toronto, Sam Eckler grew up in Toronto, in the working-class Parkdale neighbourhood. His father ran a grocery store. Before university, Sam attended Ryerson Public School and Parkdale Collegiate. As an undergraduate,...
All the Devils Are Here
The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"Hell is empty, and
all the devils are here."
-Shakespeare, The Tempest
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies,...
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest,...
The Real Thing
Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
A definitive history of Coca-Cola, the world’s best-known brand, by a New York Times reporter who has followed the company and who brings fresh insights to the world of Coke, telling a larger story about American business and culture
The Real Thing is a portrait of America’s most famous...