Background
Porter, Glenn was born on April 2, 1944 in New Boston, Texas, United States. Son of Pat Paul and Mary Lee (Sanders) Porter.
( The fundamental and explosive changes in the U.S. econo...)
The fundamental and explosive changes in the U.S. economy and its business system from 1860 to 1920 continue to fascinate and engage historians, economists, and sociologists. While many disagreements persist about the motivations of the actors, most scholars roughly agree on the central shifts in technologies and markets that called forth big business. Recent scholarship, however, has revealed important new insights into the changing cultural values and sensibilities of Americans who lived during the time, on women in business, on the ties between the emerging corporations and other American institutions, on the nature of competition among giant firms, and on the dawn of modern advertising and consumerism. This vast accumulation of notable new work on the social concept and consequences of economic change in that era has prompted Glenn Porter to recast numerous portions of The Rise of Big Business, one of Harlan Davidson’s most successful titles ever, in this, the third edition. Those familiar with this classic text will appreciate the expanded coverage of topics beyond the fray of regulation and the political dimensions of the emergence of concentrated enterprise, namely the influence of the rise of big business on social history. An entirely new bank of photographs and illustrations rounds out the latest edition of our enduringly popular title, one perfect for supplementary reading in a variety of courses including the U.S. history survey, the history of American business, and specialized courses in social history and the Gilded Age.
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museum and library administrator
Porter, Glenn was born on April 2, 1944 in New Boston, Texas, United States. Son of Pat Paul and Mary Lee (Sanders) Porter.
Bachelor, Rice University, 1966. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1970.
Assistant professor business history Harvard Business School, Boston, 1970—1976. Director regional economic history research center Hagley Museum & Library., Wilmington, Delaware, 1976—1983, director, since 1984.
(Book published on the occasion of the exhibition of the s...)
( The fundamental and explosive changes in the U.S. econo...)
Member consultant committee National Survey of Historic Sites and buildings, Washington, 1976—1979. Council member Delaware Humanities Council, 1981—1983. Trustee Worldesign Foundation, 1993—1995, Andalusia Foundation, 1994—2000.
Member of Mid-Atlantic Association Museum, American Association Museum, National Humanities Alliance (board directors 1994-1997), Independent Research Libraries Association (president 1994-1997), Society Architectural Historians, Society for History of Technology, Business History Conference 1987, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married K.T. Wimberly, June 1, 1968 (divorced 1986). Married Barbara H. Butler, December 18, 1987.