The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939

by Christopher Schmitt and Christopher J. Schmitz

This book provides the first available introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before the Second World War. It discusses the evolution of firms such as Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens, as well as introducing the reader to the major explanations that have been advanced by historians and economists in order to account for these developments in the global economic order.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521557712
• ISBN13: 9780521557719
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"