Convention Center Follies

Heywood T Sanders

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 4... Lees meer

Remaking the Rust Belt

Tracy Neumann

• Paperback | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and politi... Lees meer

Roaring Metropolis

Daniel Amsterdam

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped m... Lees meer

The People's Network

Robert Macdougall

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. I... Lees meer

Hinterland Dreams

Eric J Morser

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• In the 1840s, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was barely more than a trading post nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River. But by 1900 the sleepy frontier... Lees meer

The Military and the Market

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and u... Lees meer

Building the Empire State

Brian Phillips Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the econ... Lees meer

The Long Gilded Age

Leon Fink

• Paperback | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Adva... Lees meer

Liquid Capital

Joshua A T Salzmann

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan into an intensively managed water... Lees meer

Branding Trust

Jennifer M Black

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds th... Lees meer

The Metropolitan Airport

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize p... Lees meer

Remaking the Rust Belt

Tracy Neumann

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and politi... Lees meer

Destructive Creation

Mark R Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing n... Lees meer

Bank Notes and Shinplasters

Joshua R Greenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currenc... Lees meer

The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1

Albert J Churella

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At ... Lees meer

Sound Business

Michael Stamm

• Paperback | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadca... Lees meer

Reform or Repression

Chad Pearson

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Historians have characterized the open-shop movement of the early twentieth century as a cynical attempt by business to undercut the labor movement by... Lees meer

Risk and Ruin

Gavin Benke

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s econ... Lees meer

From Main Street to Mall

Vicki Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introduc... Lees meer

Market Rules

Mark H Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to... Lees meer

Destructive Creation

Mark R Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing n... Lees meer

Represented

Brenna Wynn Greer

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm, the flag... Lees meer

Paying the Toll

Louise Nelson Dyble

• Paperback | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• Since its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol ... Lees meer

Making Seafood Sustainable

Mansel G Blackford

• Hardcover | Engels | American Business, Politics, and Society
• In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swi... Lees meer