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56 produkter
Sound Business
Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media
E-bok, 2011
415 kr
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American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own …
Making Seafood Sustainable
American Experiences in Global Perspective
E-bok, 2011
940 kr
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In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swirl of the Antarctic Circle, we are gutting our seas of fish." There were legitimate grounds for concern. After increasing more than fourfold between …
Paying the Toll
Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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Since its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement. Constructing the bridge posed political and financial challenges that were at least as difficult as those faced by the …
Hinterland Dreams
The Political Economy of a Midwestern City
E-bok, 2011
985 kr
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In the 1840s, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was barely more than a trading post nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River. But by 1900 the sleepy frontier town had become a thriving city. Hinterland Dreams tracks the growth of this community and shows that government institutions and policies were as …
Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Building an Empire, 1846-1917
E-bok, 2012
1527 kr
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"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR …
People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
E-bok, 2013
1007 kr
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The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens-farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs-established tens of thousands of independent telephone …
Convention Center Follies
Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities
E-bok, 2014
1206 kr
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American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in 2011-an increase of almost 75 percent. Proponents of these projects promised new jobs, new private …
Paying the Toll
Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge
Häftad, 2013
388 kr
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Since its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement. Constructing the bridge posed political and financial challenges that were at least as difficult as those faced by the …
Sound Business
Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media
Häftad, 2016
332 kr
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American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own …
Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 2018
342 kr
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From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The …
Destructive Creation
American Business and the Winning of World War II
Häftad, 2018
400 kr
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During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of …
Remaking the Rust Belt
The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
Häftad, 2019
342 kr
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Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by newly industrializing regions in the Global South. This was not simply a North American phenomenon-the …
From Main Street to Mall
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Av Vicki Howard
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. …
Represented
The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
Häftad, 2021
396 kr
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In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm, the flagship client of which was the Coca-Cola Company. As the first black pitchman for Coca-Cola, Kendrix found his way into the rarefied world of white …
Hinterland Dreams
The Political Economy of a Midwestern City
Inbunden, 2010
822 kr
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In the 1840s, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was barely more than a trading post nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River. But by 1900 the sleepy frontier town had become a thriving city. Hinterland Dreams tracks the growth of this community and shows that government institutions and policies were as …
Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Building an Empire, 1846-1917
Inbunden, 2012
1333 kr
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"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR …
People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Inbunden, 2014
822 kr
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The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens-farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs-established tens of thousands of independent telephone …
Convention Center Follies
Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities
Inbunden, 2014
653 kr
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American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in 2011-an increase of almost 75 percent. Proponents of these projects promised new jobs, new private …
Building the Empire State
Political Economy in the Early Republic
Inbunden, 2015
757 kr
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Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic. Brian Phillips Murphy follows the collaborations between political leaders and a group of unelected political …
From Main Street to Mall
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Av Vicki Howard
Inbunden, 2015
1171 kr
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The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. …
Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
Inbunden, 2015
511 kr
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John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them-JFK was …
Reform or Repression
Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement
Av Chad Pearson
Inbunden, 2015
822 kr
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Historians have characterized the open-shop movement of the early twentieth century as a cynical attempt by business to undercut the labor movement by twisting the American ideals of independence and self-sufficiency to their own ends. The precursors to today's right-to-work movement, advocates of …
Roaring Metropolis
Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State
Inbunden, 2016
589 kr
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Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American …
Remaking the Rust Belt
The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
Inbunden, 2016
1171 kr
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Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by newly industrializing regions in the Global South. This was not simply a North American phenomenon-the …
Destructive Creation
American Business and the Winning of World War II
Inbunden, 2016
1229 kr
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During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of …
Liquid Capital
Making the Chicago Waterfront
Inbunden, 2017
630 kr
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In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan into an intensively managed waterscape supporting the life and economy of Chicago, now America's third-most populous city. In Liquid Capital, Joshua A. T. Salzmann shows how, through …
Risk and Ruin
Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism
Av Gavin Benke
Inbunden, 2018
459 kr
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At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures-some more legal …
Sovereign Soldiers
How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II
Av Grant Madsen
Inbunden, 2018
589 kr
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They helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies, devising domestic policy and making critical economic decisions for people they had just defeated in …
Market Rules
Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession
Av Mark H. Rose
Inbunden, 2018
531 kr
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Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry.In 1971, …
Represented
The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
Inbunden, 2019
1229 kr
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In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm, the flagship client of which was the Coca-Cola Company. As the first black pitchman for Coca-Cola, Kendrix found his way into the rarefied world of white …
