Chicago Business and Industry - From Fur Trade to E-Commerce

Informationen zum Autor Janice L. Reiff is associate professor of history at the University of California! Los Angeles. She is coeditor! with James R. Grossman and Ann Durkin Keating! of The Encyclopedia of Chicago! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost! Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. Beginning with an overview of the city's commercial development! this book considers how key industries shaped - and were shaped by - both the local and global economies. Zusammenfassung From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost! Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. Beginning with an overview of the city's commercial development! this book considers how key industries shaped - and were shaped by - both the local and global economies.

Product details

• Authors: Janice L. Reiff, REIFF JANICE L, REIFF JANICE L EDT
• Assisted by: Janice L. Reiff (Editor), Reiff Janice L. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780226709369
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70936-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Illinois, HISTORY / Social History, Economic history, History of the Americas, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history