Shaping the Industrial Century

Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0674032217

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries (Harvard Studies in Business History)

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