Brahmin capitalism : frontiers of wealth and populism in America's first Gilded Age / Noam Maggor
- Author
- Maggor, Noam, 1977-
- Published
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Physical Description
- xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Anatomy of a crisis -- Cultivating the laissez faire metropolis -- Brahminism goes west -- The contest over the common -- Eastern money and western populism -- The age of reform.
- Summary
- Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money families on the American scene - successfully reinvented themselves. Better known as social reformers, philanthropists, and men of letters, these scions of wealth were also astute businessmen with immense financial resources. Venturing far afield from the comforts of the northeast, they painstakingly forged wide-ranging networks of capital, commodity, and labor flows that incorporated large territories in the American West into the economy of the United States. They played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the American economy during the decades after the Civil War, leading the way to the nationally-integrated corporate capitalism of the twentieth century.--
- Subject(s)
- 1800-1918
- Capitalists and financiers—Massachusetts—Boston—History
- Capitalists and financiers—United States—History
- Capitalism
- Capitalists and financiers
- Economic history
- Kapitalismus
- Regionale Mobilität
- Sozialer Wandel
- Investitionsentscheidung
- Capitalism—United States—History—19th century
- United States—Economic conditions—1865-1918
- West (U.S.)—Economic conditions—19th century
- Massachusetts—Boston
- United States
- USA
- Boston, Mass
- United States, West
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780674971462 hardcover alkaline paper
0674971469 hardcover alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2016
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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