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2017-01-01

Brahmin Capitalism

Author	: Noam Maggor
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Total Pages	: 299
Release	: 2017-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9780674971462
ISBN 13	: 0674971469
Language	: EN, FR, DE, ES & NL

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Brahmin Capitalism Book Description:

Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West.

Language: en
Pages: 299

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