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Problems of Writing the History of Large Business Units with Special Reference to Railroads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Richard C. Overton
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The distinctive and by far the most difficult of all the “Problems in Writing the History of Large Business Units” centers around the word “large,” because the mere size of the project complicates each step of the historian's program. Let me be specific.

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Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Problems in Writing the History of Large Business Units , February 1948 , pp. 22 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1948

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