Corporate History category: 769 books
Asbestos House
the secret history of James Hardie Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos.
Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie...
The Dynamics of Big Business
Structure, Strategy, and Impact in Italy and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Throughout the Twentieth Century, big business has been a basic institution. Large corporations have provided a fundamental contribution to the wealth of nations and, at the same time, have had a remarkable impact on the political and social systems within which they have operated. It is difficult...
Munich Re
The Company History 1880-1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Die Münchener Rück stieg schon bald nach ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1880 zum Weltmarktführer auf. Johannes Bähr und Christopher Kopper legen nun die erste Geschichte des Unternehmens vor, die von den Anfängen bis in die 1980er Jahre reicht. Bis heute ist Munich Re einer der beiden weltweit führenden...
by Jan Churchill (ATP CFII USCGAUX), Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins Jr. (DE ANG Retired)
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
For such a small state, Delaware has a fascinating aviation history. Delaware counts aircraft from the smallest, like the 1910 Delaplane, to the largest, the USAF C-5 Galaxy airlifter, among its rich variety. Numerous small grass airstrips dotted the state in the early years, serving as an incubator...
Sheridan Nurseries
One Hundred Years of People, Plans, and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
A charming tale of history, creativity, natural inspiration, and a love of gardening.
In 1913, Howard Dunington-Grubb and his wife, Lorrie, bought a small plot of land near Sheridan, Ontario, for the cultivation of ornamental plants. Local farmers thought they were crazy. But Howard and Lorrie,...
North Dakota Beer
A Heady History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Before North Dakota obtained statehood and entered the Union as a dry state, the region's commercial beer industry thrived. A lengthy era of temperance forced locals to find clever ways to get a beer, such as crossing the Montana and Minnesota borders for a pint, smuggling beer over the rails and...
Empty Pleasures
The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production,...
by Oscar Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Here for the first time is told in a single volume one of the most remarkable stories in American history. An Eastener is never long in California without hearing something of “the big four”: four Sacramento shopkeepers—Collis P. Huntington, Lelan Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker—who...
by William Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The history of US Airways begins in 1939 as All American Aviation, flying single-engine Stinson Reliant aircraft to carry mail under a contract by the US Postal Service. By 1953, All American became Allegheny Airlines with the goal to become one of America�s premier airlines in the East. Allegheny...
by Kathy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
A deep dive into the history of the much-loved plush bear brand from one of the world’s foremost teddy bear experts.
Merrythought was one of Britain’s longest running British-made teddy bear firms with a dedicated international following for their quality, highly collectable bears whose life-size...
Texas Boomtowns
A History of Blood and Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
On January 10, 1901, Beaumont awoke to the historic roar of the Spindletop gusher. A flood of frantic fortune seekers heard its call and quickly descended on the town. Over the next three decades, Texas's first oil rush transformed the sparsely populated rural state practically beyond recognition....
by Kathy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
One of the world’s foremost teddy bear experts delves into the history of the famous brand that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
The family firm of J. K. Farnell & Co. Ltd. occupies a position of unparalleled importance in British soft toy history, firstly because it was the very first British...
by William Ferneley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fantastic resource for the history and structure of the main municipal body governing the City of London.
Operation Welcome
How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 19491979
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
An accepted narrative within European integration history is that the issue in which city to locate European Community headquarters was decided on the intergovernmental level between the member states. In the present volume, this view is expanded with the example of Strasbourg by arguing that activity...