As the global economic crisis that developed in the year 2008 makes clear, it is essential for educated individuals to understand the history that underlies con

Offers a wide range of perspectives to provide an encompassing context of the United States' labor and economic histories.

This encyclopedia entries that: explore the changing character of capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present; cover the evolution of business practi

In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History brings together, in one authoritative reference work, an unparalleled wealth of information abou