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Pathfinder:
Business History
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications
SCOPE: Americas business spirit began as early as the frontier days when trappers, miners, and farmers settled new lands, grew crops, and established new trade routes. The Industrial Revolution brought forth new entrepreneurs such as Elias Howe, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick whose inventions helped pave the way for such industrial giants as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. As a result, the economy grew. These early innovators established the foundation for the way business is carried on today. ( Dethloff, Henry C., American Business History Case Studies) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with business history are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:
Business
enterprises United States History
Industrial
management United States History
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF E169.1.E624 2001 Encyclopedia of American Cultural &
Intellectual History
REF HF 1001.E466 2001 Encyclopedia of Business
REF HD 2344.5.U6W35 The History of Black Business in America:
Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located on the second floor of the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Bernstein, Paul. American
Work Values: Their Origin and Development. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
Decker, Jeffrey Louis. Made in America:
Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Gabor, Andrea. The
Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business
Their Lives, Times, and Ideas. New York: Times Business, 2000.
Klein, Maury. Rainbow's
End: The Crash of 1929. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Incorporating
Women: A History of Women and Business in the United
States. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.
Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese
Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
Screpanti, Ernesto. An
Outline of the History of Economic Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Wawro, Thaddeus. Radicals &
Visionaries. Irvine, CA: Entrepreneur Press, 2000.
Some of the specific journals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of business history are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
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Updated
02/08/2007
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