Download or read book The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. In The Great Merger Movement in American Business, Lamoreaux explores the causes of the mergers, concluding that there was nothing natural or inevitable about turn-of-the-century combinations.