'A timely and well-conceived collection of six essays that contributes to the history of the grow...

This book explains how U.S. government activity in the 1930s led to gains in farm productivity.

This 2002 text tells the story of the explosion in wireless communications, through the eyes of S...

Elihu Thomson was a major American inventor of electric light and power systems. A contemporary o...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the performance of the chemical industry in the age of...

The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the com...

Entrepreneurs, managers, and policy makers must make decisions about a future that is inherently ...

P. Roy Vagelos grew up during the Depression as a wise-cracking son of Greek immigrants. He left ...

This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial hi...

The Marshall Plan presents the fullest account yet written of America's program to assist Europe ...

The essays in this volume probe the impact the digital revolution has had, or sometimes failed to...

Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a particular, yet comprehensive, view of the econ...

Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery undermined the devel...

A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the ...

The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the ...

What motivates workers to work harder? What can management do to create a contented and productiv...

The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerg...

This book was first published in 1985. The enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act i...

Wireless entrepreneurs are transforming the way people live and work around the globe. In the pro...

A history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to the 1970s.

This book, first published in 2007, presents research by leading scholars to an international aud...

This book draws important lessons from the early days of industrial research in America.

This collection of essays by 1971 Nobel Prize winner Simon Kuznets, published posthumously, repre...

This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Econo...

The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the ...

Roy Vagelos, Merck's former CEO, addresses controversial issues that turned the pharmaceutical in...

Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news today. Controversies over public safety, ...

Focusses on why the American economy failed to recover from the downturn of 1929-1933.

At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, Am...

The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerg...

Srinath Reddy, Yasmine Rouai, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Cicely Thomas, Tana Wuliji, Snow Yang, Pascal ...

Winner of the Kansas State Library's Kansas Notable Book Award

Volumes XII and XIII follow Eisenhower's career from January 1, 1951 to the day before his inaugu...

Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final ...

Winner of the Kansas State Library's Kansas Notable Book Award

Volumes XII and XIII follow Eisenhower's career from January 1, 1951 to the day before his inaugu...

Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final ...

Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final ...

Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final ...

This book will be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and students in public health as well a...

Volumes XII and XIII follow Eisenhower's career from January 1, 1951 to the day before his inaugu...