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American business history is a history of business, entrepreneurship, and corporations, together with responses by consumers, critics, and government, in the United States from colonial times to the present. In broader context, it is a major part of the Economic history of the United States, but focuses on specific business enterprises.
Founded in Istanbul, moved to the U.S. in 1929. Founded in Tokyo, moved to the U.S. in 1958. Defunct in 2021. Marple, Pennsylvania (found.) Now owned by Purina Mills . Newport, Rhode Island (found.) Sold 2003–2007; re-branded 2017. New York City (found.) Defunct 2016; brand owned by Reynolds American .
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse , AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company .
v. t. e. Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs. It is related to economic history. [ 1]
Amazon.com, Inc., [ 1] doing business as Amazon ( / ˈæməzɒn /, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈæməzən /, AM-ə-zən ), is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [ 5]
The book is still widely referred to today as one of the most influential works of literature in modern history. Josiah Warren is widely regarded as the first American anarchist [ 22 ] and the four-page weekly paper he edited during 1833, The Peaceful Revolutionist , was the first anarchist periodical published. [ 23 ]
A corporation is an organization —usually a group of people or a company —authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes. [ 1]: 10 Early incorporated entities were ...
ISBN. 978-0-87140-712-2. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights is a book-length history of American corporate personhood and other rights of corporations written by constitutional law professor Adam Winkler and published by W. W. Norton in 2018. The title was a 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist.