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The Men Who United the States
The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible© 2013 Simon Winchester496 pages The Men who United the States is a storied account of how the American people came to … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, America, Colonial America, commerce, Early American Republic, history, outdoors, rivers, technology, Technology and Society, trains
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The Box
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger© 2006 Marc Levinson376 pages It’s not every day an invention completely revolutionizes its industry, let alone the world. And yet that’s what the shipping container, … Continue reading
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Tagged commerce, goods/services, history, labor, NYC, shipping, technology, Technology and Society, transportation
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Uncommon Carriers
Uncommon Carriers© 2006 John McPhee256 pages Uncommon Carriers invites readers to spend a day in the life of a truck drivers, ocean-going cargo ship and riverbound freight tugboat pilots, train engineers, UPS aviators, and — just for good measure — … Continue reading
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Tagged commerce, on the job, rivers, shipping, trains, transportation
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Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guaranteed: the Making of the American Mass Market© 2004 Susan Strasser348 pages America was born of the frontier, its citizens people who by necessity often manufactured their own household requirements. This was the case throughout most of the 19th … Continue reading
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Tagged business, commerce, consumerism, critical history, Gilded Age, goods/services, history, marketing, social history, Susan Strasser
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Basic Economics
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy © 2010 Thomas Sowell 789 pages (4th edition) Basic Economics is a sweeping introduction to the fundamental principles of market economics and their application to constituent elements of the local and global economy like … Continue reading
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Tagged classically liberal, commerce, economics, money, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, Thomas Sowell
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