David O. Whitten is Professor of Economics at Auburn University. He is the author of A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University (1992) and Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South (1995) co-author, with Douglas Steeples, of Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893 (1998),and editor of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, 1793-1993 and Essays in Economic and Business History, the journal of the Economic and Business Historical Society.Bessie E. Whitten is editor (with David O. Whitten) of Manufacturing: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (1990), Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (1997), and Infrastructure and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (2000), volumes 1-3 of the Handbook of American Business History,and of Business Library Review International, a journal of refereed articles, book review articles, and book notes (1988-2001).

The authors accurately describe this volume as an introductory work that draws together diverse threads of US business history; it provides a straightforward account of the rise of American big business, characterized by increasing efficiency and productivity alongside the growth of monopolistic forces….Readers will enjoy the way the authors, an academician and scholarly editor respectively, put modern business practices into historical context. This book provides a considerable amount of detail while being engaging enough to hold the interest of general readers and undergraduates. Recommended. Public and academic library collections, lower-division undergraduate and up.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I Backgroundchapter 1. American Business in the Civil Warchapter 2. Giant Business in Communications and TransportationPart II Giant Commercial Enterprisechapter 3. The Commercial Response to a Mass Marketchapter 4. The United Fruit Companychapter5. The Singer Sewing Machine CompanyPart III Giant Firms to Exploit Natural Resources: Extractive Industrieschapter 6. Giant Farmschapter 7. The American Sugar Refining Companychapter 8. The American Tobacco Companychapter 9. The Forest Products Industrychapter 10. MiningPart IV Industrial Giants: The Manufacturing Titanschapter 11. Standard Oil Corporationchapter 12. United States Steel Corporationchapter 13. The Meat PackersSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Authors

David O. Whitten is Professor of Economics at Auburn University. He is the author of A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University (1992) and Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South (1995) co-author, with Douglas Steeples, of Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893 (1998),and editor of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, 1793-1993 and Essays in Economic and Business History, the journal of the Economic and Business Historical Society.Bessie E. Whitten is editor (with David O. Whitten) of Manufacturing: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (1990), Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (1997), and Infrastructure and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (2000), volumes 1-3 of the Handbook of American Business History,and of Business Library Review International, a journal of refereed articles, book review articles, and book notes (1988-2001).

The authors accurately describe this volume as an introductory work that draws together diverse threads of US business history; it provides a straightforward account of the rise of American big business, characterized by increasing efficiency and productivity alongside the growth of monopolistic forces….Readers will enjoy the way the authors, an academician and scholarly editor respectively, put modern business practices into historical context. This book provides a considerable amount of detail while being engaging enough to hold the interest of general readers and undergraduates. Recommended. Public and academic library collections, lower-division undergraduate and up.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I Backgroundchapter 1. American Business in the Civil Warchapter 2. Giant Business in Communications and TransportationPart II Giant Commercial Enterprisechapter 3. The Commercial Response to a Mass Marketchapter 4. The United Fruit Companychapter5. The Singer Sewing Machine CompanyPart III Giant Firms to Exploit Natural Resources: Extractive Industrieschapter 6. Giant Farmschapter 7. The American Sugar Refining Companychapter 8. The American Tobacco Companychapter 9. The Forest Products Industrychapter 10. MiningPart IV Industrial Giants: The Manufacturing Titanschapter 11. Standard Oil Corporationchapter 12. United States Steel Corporationchapter 13. The Meat PackersSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Authors

David O. Whitten is Professor of Economics at Auburn University. He is the author of A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University (1992) and Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South (1995) co-author, with Douglas Steeples, of Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893 (1998),and editor of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, 1793-1993 and Essays in Economic and Business History, the journal of the Economic and Business Historical Society.Bessie E. Whitten is editor (with David O. Whitten) of Manufacturing: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (1990), Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (1997), and Infrastructure and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (2000), volumes 1-3 of the Handbook of American Business History,and of Business Library Review International, a journal of refereed articles, book review articles, and book notes (1988-2001).

The authors accurately describe this volume as an introductory work that draws together diverse threads of US business history; it provides a straightforward account of the rise of American big business, characterized by increasing efficiency and productivity alongside the growth of monopolistic forces….Readers will enjoy the way the authors, an academician and scholarly editor respectively, put modern business practices into historical context. This book provides a considerable amount of detail while being engaging enough to hold the interest of general readers and undergraduates. Recommended. Public and academic library collections, lower-division undergraduate and up.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I Backgroundchapter 1. American Business in the Civil Warchapter 2. Giant Business in Communications and TransportationPart II Giant Commercial Enterprisechapter 3. The Commercial Response to a Mass Marketchapter 4. The United Fruit Companychapter5. The Singer Sewing Machine CompanyPart III Giant Firms to Exploit Natural Resources: Extractive Industrieschapter 6. Giant Farmschapter 7. The American Sugar Refining Companychapter 8. The American Tobacco Companychapter 9. The Forest Products Industrychapter 10. MiningPart IV Industrial Giants: The Manufacturing Titanschapter 11. Standard Oil Corporationchapter 12. United States Steel Corporationchapter 13. The Meat PackersSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Authors