Tag: Inventing

Beyond Piggly Wiggly Inventing the American Self-Service Store


Free Download Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store by Lisa C. Tolbert
English | August 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 082036441X | 364 pages | True EPUB | 39.78 MB
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process.

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Inventing the People The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America


Free Download Edmund S. Morgan, "Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America"
English | 1989 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0393306232, 0393025055 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." ―Michael Kamman, Washington Post

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