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Books marked with an asterisk are available
to licensed users on the ACLS
History E-Books Project (UW-Madison
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"Must" reading |
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Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View.
London and New York: Macmillan, 1974. |
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History of Corporations (link to
readings in the Corporations area of this website) |
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Comparative or Trans/International Studies --
History of Capitalism |
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Adelman, Jeremy.
Frontier Development: Land, Labour and Capital on the Wheatlands of
Argentian and Canada, 1890-1914. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. |
| Banner,
Stuart. Anglo-American Securities Regularion: Cultural and
Political Roots, 1690-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998. |
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Chandler, Alfred D.,
Jr. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. |
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Chandler, Alfred D.,
Jr., and Herman Daems, editors. Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative
Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. |
| Dunlavy, Colleen A. Politics
and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and
Prussia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. |
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Greenfeld, Liah.
The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. |
| Laslett, John H. M. Colliers
Across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland
and the American Midwest, 1830-1924. Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 2000. |
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Reddy, William M.
Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
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Single-Country Studies -- History of Capitalism |
| Balleisen,
Edward. . . . . |
| Bensel,
Richard Franklin. The Political Economy of American
Industrialization, 1877-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. |
| Kaysen,
Carl, ed. The American Corporation Today. New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. |
| Krause, Paul.
Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, Steel.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. |
| Lamoreaux,
Naomi. The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. |
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McGaw, Judith. Most Wonderful
Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Papermaking,
1801-1885. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. |
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Robertson, David
Brian. Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets
from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 2000. |
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Classic Works --
History of Capitalism |
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* Chandler, Alfred D.,
Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business.
Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1977. |
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* Landes, David S.
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development
in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge
University Press, 1969. |
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Rostow, W. W. The
Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1960. |
Reference Works |
| Arnesen, Eric, ed. Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History (New York: Routledge, 2007). |
Encyclopedia of American
Business History and Biography. New
York: Facts On File, 1988. |
| Kranzberg, Melvin, and Carroll
W. Pursell, Jr., eds. Technology in Western Civilization, 2
vols. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. |
| Singer, Charles, et al.,
eds. A History of Technology, 5 vols. New York and
London: Oxford University Press, 1954-58. |
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Porter, Glenn, ed. Encyclopedia
of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. |
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Textbooks |
| Blackford, Mansel G., and K.
Austin Kerr. Business Enterprise in American History, 3d
ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994. |
| Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. A
Social History of Technology. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997. |
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McCraw, Thomas. [20th c. big
business] |
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Porter, Glenn. The Rise
of Big Business, 1860-1920. 2d ed. Arlington Heights, Ill.:
Harlan Davidson, 1992. |
| Smith, Merritt Roe, and Gregory
Clancy, eds. Major Problems in the History of American Technology.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. |
| . . . more to be added
as time permits. |
