This book provides a comprehensive look at the field's growth and development, and places M&As in realistic context amidst changing trends, legislation, and global perspectives. All-inclusive coverage merges expert discussion with extensive graphs, research, and case studies to show how M&As can...

In the first half of the twentieth century a variety of factors - stagnant extraction processes, fierce competition from abroad, less favourable geological endowment, unstable demand during the interwar years - led Belgian coal producers to unify in order to preserve their production capacities....

An Overview of the Construction Industry Today -- Classical Times -- Medieval Times - The Foundation of the Industry -- The Renaissance 1350 - -- - 17th Century England -- The American Colonies 17th C. -- Industrial Revolution - Great Britain 18th C. -- American Colonies 18th C. -- Developments...

Introduction -- The economic and political context for Danish agricultural development, ca.1660-1850 -- The agricultural reforms, 1750s-1800s -- The spread of the Holstein system -- From bullshit to butter: accounting and production decisions -- Science, innovation, and the dissemination of...

Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...