Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674971469 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Noam Maggor is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of History at Cornell University, where he teaches courses on the history of capitalism and the history of globalization
Their investments spawned new political and social conflict, in both the urbanizing East and the expanding West. In contests that had lasting implications for wealth, government, and inequality, financial power collided with more democratic visions of economic progress.Rather than being driven inexorably by technologies like the railroad and telegraph, the new capitalist geography was a grand and highly contentious undertaking, Maggor shows, one that proved pivotal for the rise of the United States as the world’s leading industrial nation.. Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor
This is a remarkable book. In search of profitable investments, eastern capitalists helped forge the American West. He offers a penetrating and bracing analysis of the spatial dynamics of capital accumulation and the political forces that have restrained it. Laird, Choice"Maggor's writing is like silk, so smooth that it moves the reader along Students of business history will benefit from a reading of this work."--David O. Laird Choice 2017-07-01)Maggor has produced a complex, fascinating