Capital City
Subtitle: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780684813516
Subjects: Economics; New York (N.Y.); Economic Conditions; Capitalists and financiers; United States - 19th Century; History; Business / Economics / Finance; New York; History: American; USA; Economic History; Corporate & Business History - General; History / United States / 19th Century; Capitalism; New York (State); 19th century; Corporations
First sentence: TURN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY Manhattan was a rising city of some fifty thousand, occupying the water's edge of an overwhelmingly agricultural America.