Business history
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Business history is the branch of economic history that deals with the history of business organizations, methods, government regulation, labor relations, and impact on society. It also includes biographies of individual companies and entrepreneurs.
[edit] Historiography
Business history was founded by Professor N. S. B. Gras, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, starting in 1927. He defined the field's subject matter and approach, wrote the first general treatise in the field, and helped Harvard build a tradition of scholarship as well as the leading library in the field. itioners, and to give it status in the academic world. He edited a series of monographs, the Harvard Studies in Business History. He also served as editor of the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society (1926- 1953), a journal which later became the Business History Review (1954-date).
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Textbooks and surveys: USA
- Mansel G. Blackford. A History of Small Business in America (Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series) (ISBN 0805798242) 1992)
- Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Business Enterprise in American History (ISBN 0395351553) (1990)
- Keith L. Bryant. A History of American Business (1983) (ISBN 0133892476)
- John Chamberlain. Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States (ISBN 0060107022) (1974) by popular journalist
- Thomas Childs Cochran. Business in American Life: A History (1976) (ISBN 0070115257)
- Arthur H. Cole. The American Wool Manufacture 2 vol Harvard UP 1926
- Thomas V. Dibacco. Made in the U.S.A.: The History of American Business (1988) (ISBN 0060914661)
- Alex Groner. The American heritage history of American business & industry, (ISBN 0070011567) (1972), very well illustrated
- Herman Edward Krooss. American Business History (ISBN 0130240834) (1972)
- McCraw, Thomas K. American Business, 1920-2000: How It Wor
