Business Demand and the Development of the Telegraph in the United States, 1844–1860

1980 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Du Boff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Community ◽  
American Business ◽  
Trade Journal ◽  
Business System ◽  
Size And Structure

“The telegraph system in America is eminently characteristic of the national mind. At its very birth, it became the handmaiden of commerce.” So wrote the editor of a telegraph trade journal in 1853. Professor Du Boff describes an antebellum American business community that was as ready for a “revolution” in its size and structure as the dawning science of electricity was ready to make it happen. The result was the telegraph and its enthusiastic adoption in a few short years by a business system that quickly became national in scope and outlook. The railroad may ultimately have changed America even more than the telegraph but, as Du Boff shows, the railroad was originally conceived as a local and regional facility whereas the telegraph was interregional in its impact from its very beginnings.

American Big Business in Britain and Germany

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker R. Berghahn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Community ◽  
West Germany ◽  
American Business ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Triangular Relationship

While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. This book examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany. The book begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to a reversal in German–American relations, forcing American corporations to consider cutting their losses or collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to rebuild Europe's economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in the 1980s and 1990s, in actuality it was the Germans who, with American help, had acquired an informal economic empire on the European continent. This book uncovers the surprising and differing relationships of the American business community with two major European trading partners from 1900 through the twentieth century.

The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-52
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Business ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

This chapter examines why educational leaders and businessmen in the United States thought it was a good idea to establish business schools in the first place. The answer often offered at the time was that American business itself had grown so big and complex by the turn of the twentieth century that a new university-level education was now required for the new world of managerial work. However, the more powerful rationale was that businessmen wanted the social status and cultural cachet that came with a university degree. The chapter then looks at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1881 and became the first business school in the United States. All of the more than six hundred business schools founded in the nearly century and a half since descend from Wharton.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Uta A. Balbier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
American Business ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter explores the transformed religious, economic, and political landscapes in Europe and the United States at the time of Graham’s return to Berlin and London in 1966. It explains why Graham was now facing sharper criticism: the theological climate had shifted even further away from Graham’s rather fundamentalist theology, which now appeared outdated. The 1960s counterculture articulated an increasing consumer critique that zoomed in on Graham’s unconditional support for American business culture and the American way of life. And the Vietnam War, from which Graham never really distanced himself, loomed large over his revival meetings, where he now faced open political protest. But even more so, the increasing secularization of crusade cities such as London and Berlin made it significantly harder to rally support for Graham’s revival work at the same time when Graham’s highly professionalized revivalism was increasingly perceived as secular and formulaic.

Marketing lifestyles: The ready-to-wear industry and the genesis of the consumer in the United States (1880‐1930)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesare Silla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Business ◽  
World War ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Fashion Studies ◽  
The First World War ◽  
New Consumer ◽  
First World

This article aims to make a specific contribution to the field of fashion studies through a discussion of the role of marketing in the emergence of consumer capitalism in the United States between 1880 and 1930. Specifically, the orientation of American business towards marketing and its impact on the growth of the ready-to-wear industry after the First World War are presented and discussed. This new orientation is attributed to the emergence of a new ‘consumer culture’ related to the ‘democratization’ of fashion, which actively contributed towards shaping an appropriate type of subjectivity: the fashion-conscious consumer. Rather than discussing whether marketing forged new or responded to already existing fashion trends, this article employs a genealogical approach and focuses on the process of co-emergence: under what conditions and through what kind of forces did separate developments in fashion and marketing eventually join to meet the needs of a new form of subjectivity-in-the-making?

scholarly journals How United Airlines’ Analytics and Algorithms Can Help to Save American Democracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Maury Seldin ◽  
Liz Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
General Public ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Business ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
United Airlines

This essay and analysis brings to light how analytics and algorithms, such as those used by United Airlines in thedecision to forcibly remove a passenger, highlights the interdependence between American business and AmericanDemocracy. The focus is on the injustices to a diverse group of stakeholders. Considering the United States SupremeCourt ruling in 2010 that corporations have rights like people do, the critical question is in the relationships of rightsof the non-corporate people; stakeholders including passengers, company personnel, management, stockholders, andthe general public. All of this is in the context of corporate culture and the evolving culture of American Democracy.The concentration on bottom line analytics and disregard for ethical treatment of various stakeholders, especiallyfare-paying passengers, weakens the respect for the integrity of rights among the variety of stakeholders. Theconsequence is an endangerment of the future of American Democracy, especially from internal self-destructiveforces of unbridled capitalism.

Metabolic Consequences of Increasing Milk Yield – Revisiting Lorna

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
C. K. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Energy Metabolism ◽  
Milk Yield ◽  
Genetic Selection ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
States Department ◽  
Size And Structure

Nearly 50 years ago, a cow named Lorna achieved notoriety by producing nearly 50 kg of milk daily during measurements of her energy metabolism in a calorimeter at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Energy Metabolism Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland (Flatt, Moore, Hooven and Plowman, 1965; Flatt, Moe, Munson and Cooper, 1969). In the intervening period genetic selection in dairy cattle has produced huge increases in average milk yield, as well as changes in overall conformation, udder characteristics, and body size and structure (Hansen, 2000).

Supreme Court Elections: How Much They Have Changed, Why They Changed, and What Difference It Makes

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (03) ◽  
pp. 900-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Baum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Community ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
State Supreme Court ◽  
Selection Systems

This essay draws on four recent studies of elections to state supreme courts in the United States to probe widely perceived changes in the scale and content of electoral campaigns for seats on state supreme courts. 1 Evidence from these studies and other sources indicates that changes have indeed occurred, though they are more limited than most commentaries suggest. These changes stem most directly from trends in state supreme court policy that have attracted interest-group activity, especially from the business community. Like their extent, the effects of change in supreme court campaigns have been meaningful although exaggerated by many observers. What we have learned about changes in supreme court elections has implications for choices among selection systems, but those implications are mixed and complex.

Inter-American Trade in the Early 1870s— A State Department Survey

1977 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Pletcher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
American Business ◽  
Permanent Cure ◽  
Centennial Celebrations ◽  
American Trade

A hundred years ago the United States had one of the worst depressions in its history. The disastrous drop in wages, prices, and output threw the mid-1870s into deep gloom and made the Centennial celebrations of 1876 seem to many persons no more than a bad joke. In subsequent years no one found a permanent cure for depressions, but during the late 1870s and 1880s a conviction developed that the Federal government must do more to aid American foreign trade. Thereafter the State Department cooperated increasingly with American business to expand the nation’s influence abroad.

A CROSS-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG ARAB AND AMERICAN BUSINESS STUDENTS

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hozik ◽  
J.W. Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
American Business ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Keirsey Temperament Sorter ◽  
The University

This study identifies differences in the scores of Jordanian and American business students on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality test. The test was administered to 137 students at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The research results show that, although there are significant differences in personality traits in two of four categories, there are more similarities than differences between the traits identified by these groups of students. This indicates that the personalities and temperaments of business students in Jordan and the United States are not remarkably different.

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