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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Annual Banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
Author: Capital City
Author: Thomas KessnerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743257537
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, New York City was an undistinguished town, competing with Philadelphia and Boston to be America's dominant port city. Just two generations later, it had built itself into the country's powerhouse center of trade and finance, rivaled only by London as financial capital of the world. In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of this remarkable transformation. With the advantages of its famous harbor and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York became the chief commercial center for the growing nation. As the shipping industry prospered, capital accumulated, and a growing banking center emerged, New York went on to finance the Union cause during the Civil War, open the West to development, and consolidate the national railroad system. The city's energy and opportunity attracted ambitious men from all over the country whose names became synonymous with big business: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan. New York's banks set the interest rates for the nation, its stock exchange fixed the price of securities, its investors transformed American business from family-owned enterprises into modern corporations, and its growing political clout catapulted public figures, such as Samuel Tilden and Teddy Roosevelt, onto the national stage. Combining political and urban history with a colorful cast of characters, Capital City chronicles how Gotham's Gilded Age reshaped the metropolis and the nation as it molded our present-day economy.
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Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Classed List
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Historical Magazine
Author: Classified Catalogue
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Report
Author: New York (N.Y.). Produce ExchangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial associations
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Classified List
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. Addresses made on the occasion
Author: New York Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Vol. 142, 1910, includes also an account of the banquets of the Chamber from 1769 to 1910
Arguments and Addresses of Joseph Hodges Choate
Author: Joseph Hodges ChoatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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