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History of American Business - HIST 371 Resource Guide

Analysis of American business from the colonial period to the present

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This resource guide was designed to provide you with assistance in locating good sources of information as you do research on the history of business.

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Over the last 15 years, business history has exploded as a discipline, while much business history also was made during the boom economy of the 1990s. As a result, the need for a business history encyclopedia has become more important as a means of chronicling these events and showing their antecedents, stretching back to American independence. Click here for the introduction from the Encyclopedia of American Business History.