Title:
American colossus : the triumph of capitalism, 1865-1900 / H.W. Brands.
Author:
Brands, H. W.
Publication Information:
New York : Anchor Books, 2011.
Call Number:
HC105 .B813 2011
Abstract:
From bestselling historian H.W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.
Edition:
1st Anchor books ed.
ISBN:
9780307386779
Physical Description:
viii, 686 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents:
The rise of the moguls. Speculation as martial art -- One nation under rails -- The first triumvirate -- Toil and trouble -- Frontiers of enterprise. The conquest of the South -- Lakota's last stand -- Profits on the hoof -- To make the desert bloom -- Gotham and Gomorrah. The teeming shore -- Cities of the plain -- Below the El -- The finest government money can buy. School for scandal -- The spirit of '76 -- Lives of the parties -- Capital improvements -- The decade of the century. Meet Jim Crow -- Affairs of the heartland -- The wages of capitalism -- Tariff bill and dollar mark -- Imperial dreams -- The apotheosis of Pierpont Morgan -- Epilogue: the democratic counterrevolution.
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