My Account Wish List
Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/WHB%2f.aspx
All Greenwood Products
Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide
(Click to Enlarge)
David O. Whitten, Bessie E. Whitten
Book Code: WHB/
ISBN: 0-313-25199-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-25199-3
536 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/1997
List Price: $179.95 (UK Sterling Price: £100.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Handbook of American Business History
Series Number: II
Reviews:
  • The Whittens are well versed in American business history. They provide bibliographical essays and bibliographies in sections covering 16 industries.... Each of the chapters is accompanied by an excellent concise history to the present of the industry's rise to importance in the US.... Recommended for all academic libraries.
    —
    Choice
  • With its companion volumes, it is a research tool that will prove useful in many...university libraries....It will prove valuable in your university library if you have students whose research involves these 16 industries and who want some perspectives on the titles they find--however they search.
    —Book Reviews
Description: The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.
Table of Contents:
  • Agricultural Services, ESIC 7.0
  • Agricultural Services, 7.0 by David M. Wishart
  • Forestry, ESIC 8.0
  • Forestry, 8.0 by K. Peter Harder
  • Metal Mining, ESIC 10.0
  • Metal Mining, 10.0 by Charles K. Hyde
  • Coal Mining, ESIC 12.0
  • Bituminous Coal Mining, 12.2 by Jennings B. Marshall
  • Anthracite Coal, 12.3 by David O. Whitten
  • General Building Contractors, ESIC 15.0
  • Nonresidential Building Construction, 15.4 by Ann Harper Fender
  • Food and Kindred Products, ESIC 20.0
  • Dairy Products, 20.2 by Harry C. McDean
  • Infant Formula, 20.23 by Irene Powell
  • Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries, ESIC 27.0
  • Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries, 27.0 by Clair Hoertz Badaracco
  • Chemicals and Allied Products, ESIC 28.0
  • Soap and Detergent, 28.41 by Paul A. Laux, Emmett H. Miller, and John J. Siegfried
  • Rubber, ESIC 30.0
  • Rubber, 30.0 by Andrea C. Dragon
  • Primary Metal Industries, ESIC 33.0
  • Iron and Steel Foundries, 33.2 by Ann Harper Fender
  • Railroad Transportation, ESIC 40.0
  • Railroad Transportation, 40.0 by Lloyd J. Mercer
  • Local and Suburban Transit and Interurban Highway Passenger Transportation, ESIC 41.0;
  • Local and Suburban Transit, 41.1 by Spiro G. Patton
  • Major Freight Transportation and Warehousing, ESIC 42.0
  • Public Warehousing, 42.2 by David Mitch
  • Water Transportation, ESIC 44.0
  • Water Transportation, 44.0 by Timothy E. Sullivan
  • Index
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2008 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571