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100 1 _aBrands, H. W.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAmerican Colossus : The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
_cH.W. Brands.
250 _1st Anchor books edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bAnchor Books,
_c2011.
300 _aviii, 686 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
504 _Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-660) and index.
505 0 _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 -- Lakotas 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.
520 _aChronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.
650 0 _aCapitalists and financiers
_zUnited States
650 0 _xHistory
_y19th century
650 0 _aCapitalism
_zUnited States
650 0 _xHistory
_y19th century
651 0 _aUnited States
_xEconomic conditions
_y19th century
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial conditions
_y19th century
655 7 _aNonfiction.
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