[...]... Durden, Robert F The Dukes of Durham, 18 65 19 29 Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 19 87 Porter, Patrick G “Origins of the American Tobacco Company.” Business History Review 43 (19 69) antitrust Characterizing the process of reviewing MERGERS to decide whether they violate antimonopoly laws The name derives from the period of trust creation in the United States, from 18 75 to 19 11, when many large “trusts”... because of their far-reaching effects on American business and history While finance and manufacturing remain the two oldest fields in business history, recent developments in accounting history and advertising history have given a more complete picture of American business over the last two centuries Also, scandal has often interrupted to make these once arcane fields more important The collapse of the... Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators New York: Vintage Books, 19 83 Goodrum, Charles, and Helen Dalyrymple Advertising America: The First Two Hundred Years New York: Harry N Abrams, 19 90 Lears, Jackson Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of American Advertising New York: Basic Books, 19 95 Marchand, Roland Advertising the American Dream Berkeley: University of California Press, 19 85... became watersheds in American history and have received emphasis in the entries that follow In the 20th century, the stock market crash of 19 29 and the Great Depression set off a chain of events that profoundly altered business for the rest of the century The precipitous market collapse and the string of bank failures that had been occurring throughout the 19 20s set off a torrent of new legislation in... order in 18 64 This eroded a lucrative part of the express business, and in 18 81, the new president of American Express, James Congdell Fargo (William’s younger brother), authorized the creation of an express money order that quickly won a large market share of the money order business Several years later, Fargo was traveling abroad and found it difficult and expensive to change small sums of money... reading Burrough, Bryan Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmund Safra New York: HarperCollins, 19 92 Carrington, Tim The Year They Sold Wall Street Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 19 85 Friedman, Jon, and John Meehan House of Cards: Inside the Troubled Empire of American Express New York: Putnam, 19 92 Grossman, Peter Z American Express: The Unofficial History of the People Who Built the Great... Robert Amex: A History of the American Stock Exchange New York: Weybright & Talley, 19 72 ——— The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange New York: Macmillan, 19 70 Lee Korins American Telephone & Telegraph Co (AT&T) The American Telephone and Telegraph Co at its peak in the 19 70s was the largest American Telephone & Telegraph Co company on Earth It had more than 1 million employees... military markets of the new millennium Further reading Biddle, Wayne Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare, the Story of the American Aerospace Industry New York: Simon & Schuster, 19 91 Pattillo, Donald M Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 19 98 Rae, John B Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 19 20 19 60 Cambridge,... effects of airline deregulation and increased military spending, beginning in the early 19 80s The trend toward fewer numbers of increasingly expensive aircraft continued into the 19 90s, exemplified by the Rockwell B -1 and Northrop B-2 bombers and the McDonnell Douglas F -18 and Lockheed F -11 7 fighters The “make-orbreak” nature of such contracts, and the relaxation of antitrust scrutiny in the face of international... Illinois Press, 19 87 Kaufman, Stuart Bruce Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 19 73 Le Blanc, Paul A Short History of the U.S Working Class, From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 19 99 Reuther, Victor G The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the CIO, A Memoir Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 19 79 20 American . alt="" Encyclopedia of american business history VOLUME I CHARLES R. GEISST Encyclopedia of American Business History Copyright © 2006 by Charles R. Geisst All rights r eserved. No part of this. Inc. An imprint of Infobase Publishing 13 2 West 31st Street New York, NY 10 0 01 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geisst, Charles R. Encyclopedia of American business histor y. 0- 816 0-4350-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. United States—Commerce History Encyclopedias. 2. Business enterprises—United States History Encyclopedias. 3. Indus- tries—United States History Encyclopedias.