Author: Howard L. MalchowPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Gentlemen Capitalists
Author: Howard L. MalchowPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Gentlemen Capitalists
Author: Anthony WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Gentlemen Capitalists
Author: Anthony WebsterPublisher: Tauris Academic Studies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The period when the British were establishing political and commercial hegemony in Southeast Asia also saw the foundation of the present-day 'Asian tiger' economies. Webster traces the steps leading to the consolidation of British interest.
The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
Author: Philip AugarPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964146
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A revolution took place in the City in the 80s and 90s. The cosy club of British merchant banking collapsed in a series of sell-outs, closures and scandals. This left the City dominated by US and European giants. Was this the inevitable result ofglobalization or did mismanagement play a part? This is the first book to look at how and why the British merchant banks and brokers sold out, and where that leaves us. Augar tells this fascinating story with pace and drama, taking us through the Thatcher years, the crash of 1987, Big Bang, and the aggressive invasion of the American banks. He looks at why the British banks failed to keep pace with the Americans, what this says about the way they were run, and what this means for the future.
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (Enterprise)
Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great. Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; Jay Cooke, who helped to finance the Union war effort through his then-innovative strategy of selling bonds to ordinary Americans; and Jay Gould, who tried to corner the market on gold in 1869 and as a result brought about Black Friday and fled for his life.
Gentleman Capitalists
Author: Howard L. MalchowThe Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California (Enterprise)
Author: Richard RaynerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393333612
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A true-life tale of ruthless ambition, staggering greed, and the making of a nation. Four men--Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins--rose from their position as middle-class merchants to become the force behind the transcontinental railroad.
Brahmin Capitalism
Author: Noam MaggorPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674973887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of the American economy in the decades after the Civil War, leading the way to the nationally integrated corporate capitalism of the twentieth century. Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing in New England and the abolition of slavery, these gentleman bankers traveled far and wide in search of new business opportunities and found them in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. Their investments spawned new political and social conflict, in both the urbanizing East and the expanding West. In contests that had lasting implications for wealth, government, and inequality, financial power collided with more democratic visions of economic progress. Rather than being driven inexorably by technologies like the railroad and telegraph, the new capitalist geography was a grand and highly contentious undertaking, Maggor shows, one that proved pivotal for the rise of the United States as the world’s leading industrial nation.
To Business Men, Capitalists, and All Seeking Investments (Classic Reprint)
Author: Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph CompanyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333767327
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Excerpt from To Business Men, Capitalists, and All Seeking Investments Its enterprising efforts to bring the distant points of the Coast in communication with each other and with the At lantic States, were mainly due to the foresight and well directed labors of General Horace W. Carpentier, who was President of the Company till 1866, when a majority of the stock having passed into the hands of the Western Union Tel. The management changed hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Crown and the Capitalists
Author: Wasana WongsurawatPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295746262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand—or Siam, as it was formerly known—has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress—or lack thereof—toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand’s narrative, but that view underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In particular, a long-standing relationship with China and the existence of a large and important Chinese diaspora within Thailand have shaped development at every stage. As the emerging nation struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs were neither a colonial force against whom Thainess was identified, nor had they been able to fully assimilate into Thai society. Wasana Wongsurawat demonstrates that the Kingdom of Thailand’s transformation into a modern nation-state required the creation of a national identity that justified not only the hegemonic rule of monarchy but also the involvement of the ethnic Chinese entrepreneurial class upon whom it depended. Her revisionist view traces the evolution of this codependent relationship through the twentieth century, as Thailand struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, found itself an ally of Japan in World War II, and reconsidered its relationship with China in the postwar era.