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Iron Empires
- Robber Barons, The Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Engelsk Hardback
Iron Empires
- Robber Barons, The Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Engelsk Hardback

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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 labour; 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 United States into the twentieth century – and almost sent it off the rails.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
448
ISBN-13:
9781398100268
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1398100269
Udg. Dato:
15 jul 2020
Længde:
40mm
Bredde:
244mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato:
15 jul 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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