In the revision of this seminal text, Harold Livesay introduces students to the key trends of American business, while maintaining the clarity and intellectual acumen that has made this text a perennial choice for instructors of U.S. History.          American Made presents the history of the people who forever changed the way that Americans do business. This edition has updated the stories of historical business figures with the latest scholarship, and has added important figures that have redefined American business in recent years. Additionally, two new themes of American business have been added: globalization, and the impact of information technology.

American Made: Men Who Shaped the American Economy

Business & Money

Harold C. Livesay

Economics

Little,Brown

<p>The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.</p>

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Scott, Foresman Co.

<p>A unique account of the rise of modern marketing in 19thcentury America, showing how growing industrial capacity, market concentration, and advancing technology forced new methods of distribution. No one has so carefully delineated the transition from the old mercantile to the new industrial world. Choice</p>

Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteeth Century Marketing

Glenn Porter

Ivan R. Dee

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