Iron Empires Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Houghton Mifflin Company
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Beschreibung
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
10.08.2021
Verlag
Houghton Mifflin CompanySeitenzahl
448
Maße (L/B/H)
20.4/13.7/3.5 cm
Gewicht
354 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-358-56712-7
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation’s geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle that shook the nation’s financial markets to their foundations and produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government.
Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the country into the twentieth century—and almost sent it off the rails.
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