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
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780814414118
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and 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 : 1787-1840; title: The entrepreneurial explosion : 1820-1850; title: The rise of managers : 1850-1880; title: Entrepreneurs in the age of upheaval : 1850-1880; title: The big business backlash : 1870-1920; title: The emergence of a consumer market : 1880-1920; title: Deliverance and despair : 1920-1939; title: Business in war and postwar America : 1940-1960; title: Business's winter of discontent : 1960-1982; title: Business in renaissance : 1982-1989; title: The new economy : the 1990s; title: Americans and the global market; title: Epilogue : the recession returns.