Corporate History category: 769 books
Lobbying Hitler
Industrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
From 1933 onward, Nazi Germany undertook massive and unprecedented industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in...
by Linda Carlson, Linda Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
�Company town.� The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that...
We Were Merchants
The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The words "Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche" conjure up a wealth of fond memories for local shoppers. At this landmark Louisiana department store, clerks greeted you by name; children received a nickel to buy a Coke and for every report-card A; families anticipated the holiday arrival of the beloved puppet...
Powering a City
How Energy and Big Dreams Transformed San Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
At the center of San Antonio’s growth from a small pioneering town to a major western metropolis sits CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned energy utility in the United States and an innovator in harnessing, conserving, and capitalizing on natural energy resources.
The story of modern...
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics.
Los Angeles's struggles...
by Mark A. Barnhouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Denverites once enjoyed a retail landscape rich with personal touches. Revisit May-D&F's animated holiday windows or the ice skating rink in front of the store. Reminisce about the Christmas chandeliers that stretched for four hundred feet on the main floor of the Denver Dry Goods or the elegance...
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
A New Orleans Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde, with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel...
Guerra de titanes
Apple y Google
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 7, 2014
La lucha entre dos empresas informáticas está cambiando el mundo • Un libro periodístico muy bien escrito acerca de la historia y cultura de dos empresas, cuyo enfrentamiento genera una revolución • Una mirada al futuro de la informática móvil El auge de los smartphones y las tablets, ha...
by James S. Reyburn
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Electric Boat Corporation has been a world leader in submarine development, design, and construction for more than a century. In 1900, the company delivered the Holland, the first submarine accepted by the United States Navy. Fifty-five years later, it turned fantasy into fact by sending the world�s...
by Richard Cantillon
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
La Terre est la source ou la matiere d’où l’on tire la Richesse ; le travail de l’Homme est la forme qui la produit : & la Richesse en elle-même, n’est autre chose que la nourriture, les commodités & les agrémens de la vie. La...
The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry
War and Politics, 1910-1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals...
Feeding Wild Birds in America
Culture, Commerce, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. Feeding Wild Birds in America tells why and how a modest act...
The Modern American Wine Industry
Market Formation and Growth in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This study is both a history of the American wine industry and an examination of its current structure and performance. In analysing market formation, Taplin focuses on a complex network of winery owners, winemakers and grape growers to see how relationships have shaped the evolution of this sector.
Beyond Self
Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book addresses ethical and spiritual issues in economics. The central idea advanced in the book is that the extreme focus on the self by economic actors leads to the destruction of both material and non-material values.
The assumptions of self-interest in behavior represent the core of mainstream...