The Rise of Modern Business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and China / Edition 3

by Mansel G. Blackford

Overview

The Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in several countries from the preindustrial era to the present. Paying close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes, Blackford addresses both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms, small firms as well as big businesses. For this third edition, he updates his study in light of new scholarship, with special attention paid to the structural diversity of business firms and with a timely discussion about the reciprocal relationship between business and the environment. The business history of Germany is extensively updated, and there is entirely new coverage of the business history of China, a country whose growing political and economic prowess on the world stage demands the historical and contextual understanding of business scholars today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807858868
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	05/19/2008
Edition description:	Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Mansel Blackford is professor of history at Ohio State University. He is author of a dozen books, including A History of Small Business in America (from the University of North Carolina Press) and Pathways to the Present: Development and Its Consequences in America's Pacific Possessions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Preindustrial Businesses: The Time of the Merchant     6
The Many Paths to Industrialization     37
British and German Businesses during Industrialization     63
Big and Small Businesses in Industrializing America     86
Japanese and Chinese Businesses during Industrialization     107
American, British, and German Businesses in the Interwar Period     139
Japanese and Chinese Businesses in the Interwar Period     169
National Businesses in an Expanding International Economy     193
Into the Twenty-First Century     231
Conclusion: Convergence and Divergence in World Businesses     257
Index     269

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Engaging and informative.—CHOICE



This book is one that students will return to regularly to get their bearings in a broad field.—Journal of American History



A major and helpful analytical framework and a rich review of recent literature.—Choice



An invaluable introduction to the rich variety of business experience in the leading capitalist economies. Its comparative approach pays enormous dividends, and the author has achieved that rarest of feats in combining analytical sophistication with accessibility to a wide audience.—Thomas K. McCraw, Harvard University

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A major and helpful analytical framework and a rich review of recent literature.
—"Choice"

An invaluable introduction to the rich variety of business experience in the leading capitalist economies.
—Thomas K. McCraw, Harvard University

This book is one that students will return to regularly to get their bearings in a broad field.
—"Journal of American History"

"Engaging and informative."
-- "CHOICE"

"Engaging and informative."
- "CHOICE"

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