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The second volume in the
Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information.
Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's
American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.
List of contents
Agricultural Services, ESIC 7.0Agricultural Services, 7.0 by David M. Wishart
Forestry, ESIC 8.0Forestry, 8.0 by K. Peter Harder
Metal Mining, ESIC 10.0Metal Mining, 10.0 by Charles K. Hyde
Coal Mining, ESIC 12.0Bituminous Coal Mining, 12.2 by Jennings B. Marshall
Anthracite Coal, 12.3 by David O. Whitten
General Building Contractors, ESIC 15.0Nonresidential Building Construction, 15.4 by Ann Harper Fender
Food and Kindred Products, ESIC 20.0Dairy Products, 20.2 by Harry C. McDean
Infant Formula, 20.23 by Irene Powell
Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries, ESIC 27.0Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries, 27.0 by Clair Hoertz Badaracco
Chemicals and Allied Products, ESIC 28.0Soap and Detergent, 28.41 by Paul A. Laux, Emmett H. Miller, and John J. Siegfried
Rubber, ESIC 30.0Rubber, 30.0 by Andrea C. Dragon
Primary Metal Industries, ESIC 33.0Iron and Steel Foundries, 33.2 by Ann Harper Fender
Railroad Transportation, ESIC 40.0Railroad Transportation, 40.0 by Lloyd J. Mercer
Local and Suburban Transit and Interurban Highway Passenger Transportation, ESIC 41.0;
Local and Suburban Transit, 41.1 by Spiro G. Patton
Major Freight Transportation and Warehousing, ESIC 42.0Public Warehousing, 42.2 by David Mitch
Water Transportation, ESIC 44.0Water Transportation, 44.0 by Timothy E. Sullivan
Index
About the author
DAVID O. WHITTEN is Professor of Economics at Auburn University and Editor of
Business Library Review. He is the author of several books and articles and a past president of the Economic and Business Historical Society.
BESSIE E. WHITTEN is Editor of
Business Library Review, with David Whitten, and coeditor of
Manufacturing: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide, also with David Whitten.
