Vagel C. Keller, Jr., Ph.D.

Suggested Readings: American Business History

Andrew Carnegie & Henry Clay Frick, American Businessmen, ca. 1892


Hugh G.J. Aitken, ed., Explorations in Enterprise (Cambridge, MA, 1965).

William T. Baxter, The House of Hancock: Business in Boston, 1724-1775 (New York, Russell & Russell, 1965). Orig. published 1945.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, MA., 1990).

________. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, (Cambridge, MA., 1971).

________. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, MA., 1962).

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Stephen Salsbury, Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).

John K. Brown, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831 - 1915 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People (Cambridge, MA., 1990).

Albert Churella, From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).

Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made (Cambridge, MA., 1987).

Burton W. Folsom, Jr., Urban Capitalists: Entrepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Regions, 1800 - 1920 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981).

Louis Galambos, "The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in American History," Business History Review 44 (Autumn 1970): 279-290.

David A. Hounshell, "Ford Automates: Technology and Organization in Theory and Practice," Business and Economic History 24 (1) (Fall 1995): 59-71.

John N. Ingham, Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820-1920 (Columbus: Ohio State University, 1991).

Richard R. John, "Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s, The Visible Hand after Twenty Years," Business History Review 71 (Summer 1997): 151-200.

Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Thomas K. McCraw, Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn (Cambridge, MA., 1984).

Allan Nevins, Ford (New York, Scribners, 1954-[63]), 3 vols. "With the collaboration of Frank Ernest Hill."

________. John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1940), 2 vols.

Glenn Porter and Harold C. Livesay, Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteenth-Century Marketing (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971).

Leonard Reich, The Making of Industrial Research: Science and Business at Bell and GE, 1876 - 1926 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865 - 1925 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).

________. "Diversity in Diversity: Flexible Production and American Industrialization, 1880 - 1930," Business History Review 65 (Spring 1991): 27 - 90.

Joseph Frazier Wall, Andrew Carnegie, 2d. ed. (Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989). 1st ed. published 1970.

Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972).

Mary Yeager, Competition and Regulation: The Development of Oligopoly in the Meatpacking Industry (Greenwich, Conn.: Jai Press, 1981).


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