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Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in Americas First Gilded Age

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By (author): Noam Maggor

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.

Maggors provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Bostonthe quintessential East Coast establishmentleveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing in New England and the abolition of slavery, these gentleman bankers traveled far and wide in search of new business opportunities and found them in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. 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 worlds leading industrial nation.

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  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Feb 2017
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674971462

About Noam Maggor

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.

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