The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
- ISBN-10
- 0809058278
- ISBN-13
- 9780809058273
- Category
- Corporate culture
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982-01-01
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- Eric Foner, Alan Trachtenberg
Description
Traces the history of corporations in the United States and looks at how incorporation has affected business, politics, culture, education, and society itself
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- 2007-02-06
- 272 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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