Books in the series American Business, Politics, and Society explore the relationships over time between politics, society, and the creation and performance of markets, firms, and industries large and small. The central theme of this series is that culture, law, and public policy have been fundamental to the evolution of American business from the colonial era to the present. The series aims to explore, in particular, developments that have enduring consequences.
Series Editors:
Andrew Wender Cohen
Professor of History, Syracuse University
Shane Hamilton
Senior Lecturer in International Business
York University
Kim Phillips-Fein
Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
New York University
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms,...
The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
Brenna Wynn Greer
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9780812225013
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
361 Pages
In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm, the flagship client of which was the Coca-Cola Company....
The colorful history of paper money before the Civil WarBefore Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation...
Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston
Andrew T. Simpson
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812251678
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced...
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Vicki Howard
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224399
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia,...
The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
Tracy Neumann
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224382
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by...
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by...
Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession
Mark H. Rose
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812251029
Pub Date: December 2018
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and...
At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company...
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Leon Fink
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224139
Pub Date: February 2018
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology...
