The robber barons : the great American capitalists, 1861-1901 / by Matthew Josephson.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.Description: vi, 474 pages ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 332/.0973
- HG 181 .J67 1962
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | The Roscoe Proctor Collection | HG 181 .J67 1962 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML19110009 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-460) and index.
Part one, I. The national scene: the national character -- II. What the young men dream -- III. Of empire-builders -- IV. The winning of the west -- V. Two captains of industry -- VI. The fight for Erie -- VII. Grandeurs and miseries of empire-building.
Part two, VIII. Rising from the ruins -- IX. Mephistopheles -- X. Caesar Borgia in California -- XI. Giants of the northwest -- XII. Certain industrialists arose -- XIII. Morgan and the railways -- XIV. The robber barons -- XV. Again the robber barons -- XVI. Concentration: the great trusts -- XVII. The empire of Morgan -- XVIII. Battle of giants.
"Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Harriman, Gould, Frick... this is the incredible story of the giant American capitalists who boldly seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of American life forever." -- From the back cover.
From the library of: Roscoe and Oleta Proctor.
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