The birth of big business in the United States, 1860-1914
Subtitle: commercial, extractive, and industrial enterprise
By: David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten.
Contributors: Whitten, Bessie E.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Industries -- United States -- History.; United States -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
t.p. verso: "First published in 2005"
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: American business in the Civil War; title: Giant business in communications and transportation; title: The commercial response to a mass market; title: The United Fruit Company; title: The Singer Sewing Machine Company; title: Giant farms; title: The American Sugar Refining Company; title: The American Tobacco Company; title: The forest products industry; title: Mining; title: Standard Oil Corporation; title: United States Steel Corporation; title: The meat packers.