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Author Dobson, John M.

Title Bulls, bears, boom, and bust : a historical encyclopedia of American business concepts / John Dobson
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 423 pages : illustrations
Contents Colonial America, 1607-1760 -- The new nation, 1760-1860 -- Industrializing America, 1860-1900 -- Boom and bust, 1900-1940 -- Recent America, 1940 to the present
Summary An intriguing collection of insider information on little known aspects of commonly used business techniques, instruments, policies, and personalities that influenced the rise of the world's most successful business system. Like any other specialized field of endeavor, the world of business in the United States has a language all its own
Notes Title from e-book title screen (viewed February 27, 2008)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Business enterprises -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Industries -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography
Businesspeople -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Business enterprises
Businesspeople
Commerce
Industries
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wirtschaft
SUBJECT United States -- Commerce -- History -- Encyclopedias
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Biographies
Encyclopedias
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006027499
ISBN 1851095586
9781851095582
1851095586
9786610711017
6610711011
1280711019
9781280711015
Other Titles Historical encyclopedia of American business concepts