Bibliographical references for books in English with titles beginning by G
Chapter 4: General works on motor vehicles, marques, companies, and automotive and transport industries, plus automotive accessories and components

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Davis, Michael W. R., General Motors: a photographic history (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999). [Images of motoring]. 128 p., illustrations (200, bw), 18 x 24 cm, ISBN: 0738500194 (sc).

Turner, Henry Ashby, General Motors and the Nazis: the struggle for control of Opel, Europe's biggest carmaker (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005). 208 p., illustrations, 15 x 23 cm, ISBN: 0300106343 EAN: 9780300106343. Translated in German, "General Motors und die nazis: das ringen um Opel".

General Motors builds its first 50 million cars (Lansing, MI: General Motors, 1954). 38 p., illustrations (bw/c), 21 cm.

Teixeira, Francisco et al., General Motors do Brasil: 70 years of history (São Paulo, SP: Prêmio Editorial, 1995). 127 p., illustrations (c), 23 x 31 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 126-127. Translated by Izabel Murat Burbridge, original Portuguese title, "General Motors do Brasil: 70 anos de história".

Frost, Lerinda L., General Motors research and development center: 75 years of inspiration, imagination, and innovation, 1920-1995 (The) (Detroit, MI: General Motors, 1995). 79 p., illustrations (bw/c), 31 cm. NOTES ON CONTENTS: Introduction by Ken Baker.

General Motors: the first 75 years of transportation products (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Publishing, 1990). 22nd ed. 223 p., illustrations (bw/c), 22 x 27 cm, ISBN: 0915038412. With the collaboration of Princeton Institute for Historic Research. COMMENTS: Produced by General Motors Corporation. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chap. 1, 1772-1895: the American automobile; chap. 2, 1897-1919: the beginnings of GM; chap. 3, 1920-1929: the early years of GM; chap. 4: 1930-1939: depression and recovery; chap. 5, 1940-1949: the war interrupts; chap. 6, 1950-1959: styling sets the pace; chap. 7, 1960-1969: marketing and performance; chap. 8, 1970-1979: the years of transition; chap. 9, 1980-1984: challenge of the future. OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1983.

Muthiah, Subbiah (1930- ), Getting India on the move: the 150 year saga of Simpsons of Madras (Madras: Higginbothams, 1990). vii, 255 p., illustrations (40 p.), 23 cm, ISBN: 8190014706.

Kiley, David, Getting the bugs out: the rise, fall, and comeback of Volkswagen in America (New York, NY: John Wiley, 2002). xvii, 302 p., illustrations (8 p.), 24 cm, bibliogr. ref., index, ISBN: 0471263044 (sc) + 0471403938 (hc). TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; chap. 1, The unveiling; chap. 2, Sins of the fathers; chap. 3, The rise; chap. 4, The magic; chap. 5, The wall; chap. 6, The German patient; chap. 7, The pitch; chap. 8, The recovery; chap. 9, The prince; chap. 10, Curves ahead; Notes; Index.

McDonald, John (1906- ), Ghost's memoir: the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Motors" (A) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003). xvii, 202 p., 21 cm, index, ISBN: 0262632853 (hc). NOTES ON CONTENTS: Emphasis given to the difficulties in overcoming the objections General Motors had towards the publication of Sloan's autobiography, "My years with General Motors". Foreword by Dan Seligman. OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, ISBN: 0262134101 (hc).

Chandler, Alfred Dupont (comp. & ed.), Giant enterprise: Ford, General Motors, and the automobile industry, sources and readings (North Strathford, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1980). [Forces in American economic growth series]. xiii, 242 p., illustrations, 23 cm, bibliogr. ref. p. 242, ISBN: 0405133499. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1 - The Strategy of growth, 1908-1920: Innovations in modern production and finance: Ford, expansion through mass production; General Motors, expansion through financial combination; The crisis of 1920-21; Part 2 - The strategy of competition: The coming of modern management and marketing: Ford sticks to tested strategies; General motors' innovations in management; General Motors' innovations in marketing; Part 3 - The challenge of labor: A new type of labor force and its challenge; The unionizing of the industry. OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1964.

Dassbach, Carl H. A., Global enterprises and the world economy: Ford, General Motors, and IBM, the emergence of the transnational enterprise (New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1989). [Studies in entrepreneurship]. ix, 558 p., 24 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 501-558, ISBN: 0824046951.

Bednar, George D., Globalism, a force for free trade: trade policy in the US automotive and steel industries, 1980-1985 (Thesis: Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 1987). 107 p., 28 cm, bibliogr. ref.

Yanik, Anthony J., GM innovations in safety engineering, test technology and biomechanical research (Warren, MI: General Motors Corporation, 1983). [Environmental activities publication; A-4266]. 13 p., 28 cm, bibliogr. ref.

Kuhn, Arthur J., GM passes Ford 1918-1938: designing the General Motors performance-control system (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986). xii, 380 p., illustrations, 24 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 349-361, index, ISBN: 0271004320.

Moritz, Michael & Barret Seaman, Going for broke: Lee Iacocca's battle to save Chrysler (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984). revised ed. viii, 350 p., illustrations (portraits), 24 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 331-332, index, ISBN: 0385193696 (sc). OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): "Going for broke: the Chrysler story", Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981, 1st ed., ISBN: 0385171803.

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