The Rise of Big Business
The emergence of corporations and the strategies of industrial titans like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
Key Questions
- 1Were the industrialists "captains of industry" or "robber barons"?
- 2How did vertical and horizontal integration transform the American economy?
- 3What role did Social Darwinism play in justifying wealth inequality?
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