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The entrepreneurial spirit of African American inventors / Patricia Carter Sluby.

Title
The entrepreneurial spirit of African American inventors / Patricia Carter Sluby.
Author
Sluby, Patricia Carter.
Publication
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011.

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Description
xii, 250 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
"This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  • Inventions > United States > History
  • African American inventors > History
  • African American business enterprises > History
  • United States > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Setting the stage: early inventive spirit -- Self-help, a beginning: business in the making -- Following their passion, in the marketplace -- Commercialized concepts: capital and enterprises of today -- Roster of African American patentees: utility and design grants from 1821.
ISBN
  • 9780313363351 (hardback)
  • 0313363358 (hardback)
  • 9780313363368 (ebook)
  • 0313363366 (ebook)
LCCN
^^2010047613
OCLC
662406029
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library