This handbook shows that business history is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, producing compelling empirical data which has sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested widely-held views in management and the social sciences.

The trade in livestock between the Red River Settlement and the American Frontier, 1812-1870 / Barry Kaye -- Straddling the "Great Transformation" : the Hudson's Bay Company in Edmonton during the transportation from the commons to private property, 1854-1882 / Terence O'Riordan --...