Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age
By Noam Maggor.
Description
Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of the American economy in the decades after the Civil War, leading the way to the nationally integrated corporate capitalism of the twentieth century.Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston―the quintessential East Coast establishment―leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks ...
ISBN(s)
0674971469, 9780674971462
