Corporate History category: 769 books
Accounting and Food
Some Italian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The interrelations between accounting and food have been hitherto neglected at an international level. This regret is particularly meaningful with regards to Italy, where 'Food', besides being a physiological need to satisfy, is one of the main pillars of the 'Made in Italy' Industry, and the so-called...
Houston Legends
History and Heritage of Dynamic Global Capitol
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Two hundred years of Houston history through the prism of business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in this essential and epic overview.
The first Houston history book to be written from a business perspective, where the stories behind the city’s many legendary successes are told. Moore presents...
A Secret History of Brands
The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The true—and often shocking—stories behind some of the biggest names in business.
We live our lives immersed in name brand products. What most of us don’t know is that the origins of many of the most well-known and beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy, drug use, and...
by Brian E. Plumb
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, is the most venerable of all the old historic taverns still operating in America. Built three hundred years ago by the How family, it has witnessed Indian affairs, colonial wars and the coming of the stagecoach, railroad and automobile. The poet Henry...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious...
Only Yesterday
An Informal History of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A history of roaring prosperity—and economic cataclysm: “The one account of America in the 1920s against which all others must be measured” (The Washington Post).
Beginning November 11, 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson declared the end of World War I in a letter to the American public,...
All the Presidents' Bankers
The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.
Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year...
The Secret History of the American Empire
The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.
Meet You in Hell
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end,...
Air Canada
The History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Begun as a social experiment in 1937, Air Canada has evolved into one of the world’s greatest airlines.
Air Canada: The History explores a modern miracle that has made commercial air travel in our country an everyday occurrence. The airline was born in 1937 as "Trans Canada Airlines,"...
Relentless Change
A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Casebooks in business history are designed to instruct students in classrooms and boardrooms about the evolution of business management. The first casebook for the study of business history in a Canadian context, Joseph E. Martin's text will help students, both in the classroom and the boardroom,...
Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in the United States.
• Explores the female financial experience in the United States from the colonial period...
by Kathy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
“This fascinating and enjoyable book tells the story of around 200 brand names, delving succinctly into their origins and fortunes over time” (Your Family History).
Many brands, including Boots, Hoover, and Kelloggs, were named after their founders whilst others have less obvious origins; for...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the "industrial...