2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Alan Taylor's 2001 comprehensive history of colonial North America — covering the Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonies as well as Native American societies — the most geographically complete account of pre-Revolutionary American history.
Frederick Winslow Taylor's 1911 monograph describing scientific management — applying systematic time-and-motion studies, task standardization, and performance pay to maximize worker productivity — the founding text of industrial management.