Books in the Handbook of American Business History series

With rapidly expanding information sources available in libraries and on the internet, researchers delving into business history need to know what is useful and what is not.

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.

Overall, this first volume in the series should render business research in manufacturing a good deal easier by bringing together insightful industry histories and detailed critical bibliographies.