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Focuses on business affairs management and trust establishment over long distance in the United States. Insights into the geography of business networks and trust; Combination of process and institutional-based modes of trust production; Organization of networks through railway and postal services.

Describes the licensing regime of North American harvesting machinery from 1830 to 1910 prior to the establishment of corporations and rise of mass production. Pattern of spatial and corporate concentration of the system of licensed production; Role of mass production to collapse of licensing regime; Relations to debates over phases of capitalism.