American colossus
Subtitle: the triumph of capitalism, 1865-1900
By: H. W. Brands
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1054
ISBN-13: 9780739377925
Subjects: Social conditions; Large type books; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [937]-1001) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: The rise of the moguls; title: Speculation as martial art; title: One nation under rails; title: The first triumvirate; title: Toil and trouble; title: Part two: Frontiers of enterprise; title: The conquest of the South; title: Lakota's last stand; title: Profits on the hoof; title: To make the desert bloom; title: Part three: Gotham and Gomorrah; title: The teeming shore; title: Cities of the plain; title: Below the El; title: Part four: The finest government money can buy; title: School for scandal; title: The spirit of '76; title: Lives of the parties; title: Capital improvements; title: Part five: The decade of the century; title: Meet Jim Crow; title: Affairs of the heartland; title: The wages of capitalism; title: Tariff bill and dollar mark; title: Imperial dreams; title: The apotheosis of Pierpont Morgan; title: Epilogue: the democratic counterrevolution.