Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers Of Wealth And Populism In America’S First Gilded Age

Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West.

• | Author: Noam Maggor
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674971469
• | ISBN-13: 9780674971462