A history of American enterprise:
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 382 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
1
2
PREFACE Xi
THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE 1
European. Roots 3
The Colonization Business 6
Reading Suggestions 10
TRANSFORMING A WILDERNESS INTO
A NATION 1607-1783 12
Colonial Agriculture 13
Virginia Planters: The Byrd Family 16
Northern Trade and Industry 19
A New England Merchant: Thomas Hancock 21
Labor 24
Money 27
Transportation 29
Life in the Empire 30
The Parting of Ways 34
Trade and the Sealanes 35
The Home Front 38
Revolutionary Financier: Robert Morris 41
Reading Suggestions 45
vu
viii
Contents
PROGRESS IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
1783-1819 47
Postwar Crowing Pains 48
The Governmental Dimension 50
Money Matters: Alexander Hamilton 52
Wild Lands 57
Taming the Land 62
The Industrial Evolution 65
The Tinkerers 67
The Social Context 71
The Corporation in Early America 72
Collecting Capital 75
Putting It All Together: Francis Cabot Lowell
78
External and Internal Constraints on Grotuth
81
Reading Suggestions 85
4
ENTERPRISE IN AN EXPANDING
NATION 1819-1860 88
The Cotton Kingdom 89
The Enslaved Labor Force 92
Western Lands 95
Shipping Developments 100
The Canal Craze 105
Early Railroads 107
The Railroad Business 112
The Continuing Industrial Evolution 117
The Management of Bus iness 121
The Business Environment 124
Reading Suggestions 127
ACHIEVING INDUSTRIAL MATURITY
1860-1890 129
The Lost Cause 130
Northern Wartime Prosperity 136
The War s Financial Legacy 139
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? 145
The Steel King: Andrew Carnegie 148
Creating the First Trust: John D. Rockefeller
153
Railroads: A Troubled Leading Sector 161
Urban Prospects and Problems 167
Working-Class America 170
Reading Suggestions 176
Contents
ix
THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE
BUSINESS SYSTEM 1890-1914 179
Merger Mania 1 SO
Finance Capitalist: J. P. Morgan 185
Reaching Out to the Customers 190
Automaker for the Common Folk: Henry Ford
194
The Lot of the Workers 201
The Progressive Reaction 206
Reading Suggestions 212
THE MATURATION OF THE
CONSUMER SOCIETY 1914-1929
214
The United States and the Great War 215
The People in War and Peace 221
The Prosperity Decade 225
The Involution of General Motors: Durant and
Sloan 229
The Mass Consumption Society 235
The Great Bull Market 238
The Crash 240
Reading Suggestions 245
THROUGH DEPRESSION AND WAR
1929-1945 246
The Onset of the Great Depression 247
The Downward Spiral 250
Money and Banking 253
The People and the Depression 256
Industry and Government 261
Hollywood’s Golden Era 263
The Aviation Industry 267
From Isolation to Involvement 272
Mobilization and Coordination of the War
Effort 274
The Domestic Impact of the War 278
Reading Suggestions 281
AN ERA OF EQUILIBRIUM 1945-1960
283
The Postwar Shake-Out 284
The Business Climate 288
The Progress of Postwar Enterprise 290
The Military-Industrial Complex 292
Organization Маги Thomas J. Watson 295
High Technology for the Masses 300
The People of the Affluent Society 304
Reading Suggestions 309
X
Contents
CONGLOMERATES, CONSUMERISM,
AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 1960-^
1980 310
The High-Technology Bonanza 311
Fast Times on Wall Street 317
Inflation 321
Detroit on the Defensive 324
Competing with the World 327
Growth and the Quality of Life 330
Catering to the Consumers 333
Lifestyles in Transition 339
Reading Suggestions 342
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE Ш THE
MODERN WORLD 344
Trading Old Anxieties for New 345
Revival of the Bull Market 347
Corporate Cannibalism 349
Toward Freer Enterprise? 353
Meeting Customer Preferences 356
The State of American Business 360
The Clouded Forecast 364
Reading Suggestions 366
INDEX 367
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