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  • Tobacco Merchant

    The Story of Universal Leaf Tobacco Company

    by Maurice Duke, Daniel P. Jordan ...
    Maurice Duke and Daniel P. Jordan vividly describe the colorful life and times of one of the South's—and America's—most important businesses and provide insight into how luck, management practices, and personalities helped the company rise to international prominence.Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, the world's largest independent leaf tobacco dealer, is one of the major buying arms for tobacco ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • The First Tycoon (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

    by T.J. Stiles ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Tycoons

    How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Americana

    A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

    by Bhu Srinivasan ...
    **An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalismNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST**From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Neither Snow Nor Rain

    A History of the United States Postal Service

    by Devin Leonard ...
    " [The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense." — USA TodayFounded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Not in My Neighborhood

    How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

    by Antero Pietila ...
    Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    by Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Visible Hand

    by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. ...
    The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Men Who Loved Trains

    The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry

    by Rush Loving ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: "This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride." — Chicago TribuneA saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America's railroads— The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who have run the railroads, both those who set about grabbing power and big salaries for themselves, and others who truly ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Business Biographies: Shaken, Not Stirred … with a Twist

    by Stephen Troy ...
    Learn life lessons from the expertstwenty-five business leaders who made their marks but did so with a bit of a twist.In this series of profiles, author Stephen K. Troy takes a detailed look at people who walked down nontraditional paths to achieve success. Many of these leaders are no longer celebrated or remembered, but their achievements changed the course of business and continue to influence ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920

    by David Hochfelder ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America.Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph in ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of Memphis

    by G. Wayne Dowdy ...
    The story of Memphis, Tennessee—from raucous river town to major Southern metropolis—with photos included.No other southern city has a history quite like Memphis. First purchased in the early 1800s from natives to serve as a vital port for the emerging American river trade, the city flourished until the tumultuous years of the Civil War brought chaos and uncertainty.Yet the city survived. Through ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus