A History of Small Business in America
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807827802
Subjects: American history; Economic History; Small businesses & self-employed; Small Business/Entrepreneurship; Government policy; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; USA; Small business; Small Business - General; United States - 20th Century; Business & Economics / Small Business; History; United States
First sentence: Writing in 1849, John Beaucamp Jones, a small-scale Missouri storekeeper, captured well the importance of merchants in mid-nineteenth-century American life: "Wherever the surges of 'manifest destiny' scatter the seeds of civilization-whether it be in solemn shade and solitude of the dark forests bordering the 'Mad Missouri,' or on the interminable praises beyond the woods-the merchant or trader is always found in their midst."