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Summary:

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.

Table of Contents:

• The rise of the moguls. Speculation as martial art
• One nation under rails
• The first triumvirate
• Toil and trouble
• Frontiers of enterprise. The conquest of the South
• Lakota's last stand
• Profits on the hoof
• To make the desert bloom
• Gotham and Gomorrah. The teeming shore
• Cities of the plain
• Below the El
• The finest government money can buy. School for scandal
• The spirit of '76
• Lives of the parties
• Capital improvements
• The decade of the century. Meet Jim Crow
• Affairs of the heartland
• The wages of capitalism
• Tariff bill and dollar mark
• Imperial dreams

• The apotheosis of Pierpont Morgan
• Epilogue: the democratic counterrevolution.

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Author/Creator:

Brands, H. W.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

American colossus: the triumph of capitalism, 1865-1900 [by Brands, H.W.]

Subjects:

United States — Economic conditions — 19th century

United States — Social conditions — 19th century

1800-1899

Social conditions

Economic conditions

United States

General Notes:

Item has slight water damage to outside edge of the book 1-27-2015 JET
Includes bibliographical references (p. [625]-660) and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 686 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

HC105 .B813 2011

ISBNs:

9780307386779 (pbk.)
0307386775 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

697261678