Book Description
Vol. 142, 1910, includes also an account of the banquets of the Chamber from 1769 to 1910.
Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1911
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Vol. 142, 1910, includes also an account of the banquets of the Chamber from 1769 to 1910.
Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1911
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Vol. 142, 1910, includes also an account of the banquets of the Chamber from 1769 to 1910
Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1921
Category : New York (State)
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Author :
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Commerce
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Author : Chauncey Mitchell Depew
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
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Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Princeton University. Library
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Classified catalogs
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Author : Princeton University. Library
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Page : 754 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Thomas Kessner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0743257537
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.