A Merchant Prince of the Nineteenth Century: William & Dodge 9780231877107

An examination of the activities of a 19th century New York merchant prince, through the biography of William E. Dodge.

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Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
1. A Connecticut Yankee
2. The Organization Of A Business
3. Factors and Finance
4. Anglo-American Mercantile Operations
5. An International Crisis
6. The Creation of A Pennsylvania Lumber Barony
7. Manufacturing and Mining
8. Railroad Promoter
9. Mercantile Capitalists
10. The Good Life
11. Servant of the Union
12. Representative of the Mercantile Community
13. Battles and Business
14. Postwar Business Expansion
15. Champion of the Red Man
16. Leader of the Mercantile Community
17. A Public-Minded Citizen
18. The Good Life Concluded
Bibliography
Index
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A MERCHANT PRINCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

by Richard Lowitt

Columbia University Press N E W YORK .

1954

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1952,

COLUMBIA

UNIVERSITY PRESS,

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1954

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