American entrepreneur
Subtitle: the fascinating stories of the people who defined business in the United States
By: Larry Schweikart, Lynne Pierson Doti.
Contributors: Doti, Lynne Pierson.
Publisher: American Management Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814414118
Subjects: Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Entrepreneurs : the essence of enterprise; title: European settlement and business enterprise in the New World; title: Entrepreneurs in the new nation : 17871840; title: The entrepreneurial explosion : 18201850; title: The rise of managers : 18501880; title: Entrepreneurs in the age of upheaval : 18501880; title: The big business backlash : 18701920; title: The emergence of a consumer market : 18801920; title: Deliverance and despair : 19201939; title: Business in war and postwar America : 19401960; title: Business's winter of discontent : 19601982.