Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services : A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide Hardback
by David O. Whitten
Part of the Handbook of American Business History series
Hardback
Description
The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists.
Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet.
Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published.
Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles.
In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically.
What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin.
This book provides a guide.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:536 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:22/04/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780313251993
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:536 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:22/04/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780313251993
