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Mansel G. Blackford is Professor Emeritus of History at the Ohio State University and author of several books, including The Rise of Modern Business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and China and Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific.

Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change examines how a major midwestern city developed economically, spatially, and socially, and what the environmental consequences have been, from its founding in 1812 to near the present day. The book analyzes Columbus's evolution from an isolated frontier village to a modern metropolis, one of the few thriving cities in the Midwest. No single factor explains the history of Columbu...

?A model narrative study of one firm, Buckeye International, and its close economic and social interrelationship with Columbus, Ohio. ... The author stressed the central fact of entrepreneurial leadership.... This is an excellent example of readable, people-oriented business history.... Excellent scholarship and should serve as a model for future studies demonstrating the significance of smaller industries to American economic and urban growth...

From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. This study explores the central but ever-changing role they have played in the nation's economic, political and cultural development, across manufacturing, sales, services and farming.

The Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in several countries from the preindustrial era to the present. Paying close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes, Blackford addresses both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms, small firms as well as big businesses. For this third edition, he updates his study in light of new ...

Ranging from the Hawaiian Archipelago to the Aleutian Islands, from Silicon Valley to Guam, Pathways to the Present is a thoroughly researched and concisely argued account of economic and environmental change in the postwar "American" Pacific. Following a brief survey of the history of the Pacific, the author takes the Hawaiian Islands as the center of American activities in the region and looks at interactions among native Hawaiian, developme...

Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change examines how a major midwestern city developed economically, spatially, and socially, and what the environmental consequences have been, from its founding in 1812 to near the present day. The book analyzes Columbus's evolution from an isolated frontier village to a modern metropolis, one of the few thriving cities in the Midwest. No single factor explains the history of Columbu...

Pioneering a Modern Small Business

With its white sandy beaches, lush green uplands, and near-perfect weather, the Hawaiian island of Maui is more than a picture postcard: it is a multi-million-dollar tourist attraction that repeatedly has been voted "best island in the world" by Conde Nast Traveler readers. Consider, then, the bumper sticker seen on residents' cars in recent years: "If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?"From its modest beginnings in the prewar era, ...