Book Description
The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon
Author : George Wilson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780938289562
The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon
Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400031745
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.
Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : Merwinasia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780983659969
"Jonathan Goldstein is our premier historian of the trade conducted between Philadelphia and China. His carefully researched new book casts needed light on the China trade of Stephen Girard, a key Philadelphia China trader, and an important figure in early United States business history. One of our first millionaires, Girard bridged several worlds. He was a curious and adaptive American, and the product of the France of his birth, naming his trading ships for enlightenment French philosophes. Goldstein's book looks at Girard's encounter with China, tracking the full arc of his China trading from entry through withdrawal, noting Girard's careful study and trade risk assessment from start to end. This book will be welcomed by scholars in various topics in American, Asian and European history. Its treatment of current popular topics such as cultural differences and perceptions, drugs and smuggling, and issues of national sovereignty and solvency will have popular appeal as well." --Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., attorney and economic historian ". . . ably traces the motivation and preparations for Girard's China ventures, detailing his legitimate commerce as well as the infamous trade in opium, which was itself both a prominent feature and the catalyst for the destruction of the pre-1842 Canton system." --Robert Gardella, emeritus professor of history, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy "Goldstein is one of the major historians studying the Old China Trade and other aspects of the western relationship with China. An important contribution to the literature of the economic relationship between the West and China." --Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY
Author : Stephen SIMPSON (of Philadelphia.)
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1832
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Author : Stephen Simpson
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : James J. Raciti
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2016-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 161139385X
Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family’s tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Phil
Author : Harry Emerson Wildes
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Industrialists
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Author : Henry Atlee Ingram
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Bankers
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Author : Henry Atlee Ingram
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : René Girard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826468535
Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. Rene Gerard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.