TY - BOOK AU - Whitten,David O. AU - Whitten,Bessie E. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The birth of big business in the United States, 1860-1914: commercial, extractive, and industrial enterprise AV - HC103 .W48 2006 U1 - 338.0973/09/034 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Praeger KW - Industries KW - United States KW - History KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - "First published in 2006"- -T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- American business in the Civil War -- Giant business in communications and transportation -- The commercial response to a mass market -- The United Fruit Company -- The Singer Sewing Machine Company -- Giant farms -- The American Sugar Refining Company -- The American Tobacco Company -- The forest products industry -- Mining -- Standard Oil Corporation -- United States Steel Corporation -- The meat packers; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=494898 ER -