Before The Gilded Age

Author : Kenneth P. Thomas
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589018397

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Competing for Capital by Kenneth P. Thomas Pdf

As corporations search for new production sites, governments compete furiously using location subsidies and tax incentives to lure them. Yet underwriting big business can have its costs: reduction in economic efficiency, shifting of tax burdens, worsening of economic inequalities, or environmental degradation. Competing for Capital is one of the first books to analyze competition for investment in order to suggest ways of controlling the effects of capital mobility. Comparing the European Union's strict regulation of state aid to business with the virtually unregulated investment competition in the United States and Canada, Kenneth P. Thomas documents Europe's relative success in controlling—and decreasing—subsidies to business, even while they rise in the United States. Thomas provides an extensive history of the powers granted to the EU's governing European Commission for controlling subsidies and draws on data to show that those efforts are paying off. In reviewing trends in North America, he offers the first comprehensive estimate of U.S. subsidies to business at all levels to show that the United States is a much higher subsidizer than it portrays itself as being. Thomas then suggests what we might learn from the European experience to control the effects of capital mobility—not only within or between states, but also globally, within NAFTA and the World Trade Organization as well. He concludes with policy recommendations to help promote international cooperation and cross-fertilization of ways to control competition for investment.

Author : Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000315980

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478601

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China's Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang Pdf

Unbundles corruption into different types, examining corruption as access money in China through a comparative-historical lens.

Author : Esther Crain
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316353687

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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 by Esther Crain Pdf

The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution. Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class. The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row. Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her "Electric Light" ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: "Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City." -Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world." - Entertainment Weekly Must List "What better way to revisit this rich period . . ?" - Library Journal

Author : Mark L. Goldstein
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bankers
ISBN : 9781647123611

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Before the Gilded Age by Mark L. Goldstein Pdf

"Before the Gilded Age is the first modern and thorough biography of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), one of the nation's earliest and most successful political insiders, financiers, philanthropists, and shapers of the emerging cultural elite during the era before the Gilded Age. He was a college dropout (Georgetown College) who became one of the richest men in Washington. A controversial figure in his own time and ours, Corcoran was a masterful political "shapeshifter" whose chameleonlike ability to work both sides of the Mason-Dixon line during and after the Civil War enabled him to thrive seamlessly between sitting out the war in Europe while rumors of treason swirled around him and then returning to the capital after the Union victory. He was friendly with Robert E. Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman; Jefferson Davis and Daniel Webster. He owned at least two individuals and worked to end Home Rule, disenfranchising the voters of Washington, DC, and ending Reconstruction in the District. He was one of the earliest consistent practitioners of the much-reviled activity of lobbying. And he devised the strategy to leverage public debt to finance the US prosecution of the Mexican-American War. Yet he also played a key role in stabilizing and merchandizing US financial securities at home and abroad, created a bank that remained independent for 175 years (Riggs Bank), and founded the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Corcoran's failings are examined along with his contributions to some of the major developments in finance and philanthropy of his era"--

Author : Mark L. Goldstein
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647123628

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Before the Gilded Age by Mark L. Goldstein Pdf

The first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse. A complex and controversial character, Corcoran influenced banking and finance, art and American culture, philanthropy, and the nation’s capital. Based on extensive archival research, Before the Gilded Age examines the fascinating life of an entrepreneur ahead of his time. A generation before Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller donated vast sums of money, Corcoran gave away most of his fortune and helped shape American philanthropy. His dedication to landscaping the emerging National Mall predates plans for New York’s Central Park. Other legacies included cofounding the Riggs Bank and founding the Corcoran Gallery of Art, whose collection has been dispersed among other arts organizations in Washington, DC, including the National Gallery of Art. Mark L. Goldstein provides a colorful account of a political chameleon who successfully transcended political party, geography, and ideology to become one of the richest and most influential people in the country even as he navigated such controversies as rumors that he was linked to plots to kill President Lincoln. Before the Gilded Age also offers readers a detailed historical perspective on the development of banking, investing, lobbying, art collecting, and philanthropy.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1795411783

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The Gilded Age: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History Pdf

The Gilded Age The period from 1870 to 1900 in the United States has become known as the Gilded Age, during which America was transformed almost beyond recognition. In the 1870s, the country was still recovering from a horrendously destructive Civil War. The nation was still mainly agrarian; cities were relatively small and large-scale industry almost non-existent. Thirty years later, the U.S. had become an industrial powerhouse with massive cities featuring skyscrapers, electric lights, automobiles on the streets, and subways running below. An influx of immigrants from different parts of the world had changed the very nature of American society which featured almost unimaginable wealth living side-by-side with abject poverty. Inside you will read about... ✓ Taming the Wild West ✓ Robber Barons and Captains of Industry ✓ Emergence of Labor Unions and Women's Movements ✓ The New Immigrants ✓ Invention and Innovation And much more! The Gilded Age was an era of entrepreneurs, inventions, industrial development, and new ideas. Most of all, it was a period of rapid and profound change which came at a high cost for the working class. In a Golden Age, life is good for everyone. But in a Gilded Age, there is only a thin surface of gold over underlying base metal, a metaphor for a small number of fabulously wealthy people who grew rich by exploiting vast numbers who lived in poverty. This is the story of the Gilded Age of America.

Author : Mark Twain,Charles Dudley
Publisher : Ezreads Publications Llc
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1615341234

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Pdf

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Illustrated.

Author : Twain M.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521078165

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The Gilded Age by Twain M. Pdf

Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and its sequel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Most of his ? nest work includes many genres such as humor, satire, and philosophical ?ction. “The Gilded Age” is a satirical novel co-written by Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. It extensively mocks and criticises political corruption, greed and human pettiness in America in the period after Civil War, which many historians call the Gilded Age.

Author : Charles William Calhoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742550389

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The Gilded Age by Charles William Calhoun Pdf

Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.

Author : Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : UOM:39015031222584

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War.

Author : Mark And Charles Dudley Twain Warner
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1376443775

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The Gilded Age by Mark And Charles Dudley Twain Warner Pdf

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Author : Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:15143193

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Janette Thomas Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000087625517

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The Gilded Age by Janette Thomas Greenwood Pdf

When many Americans think of the Gilded Age, they picture the mansions at Newport, Rhode Island, or the tenements of New York City. Indeed, the late 19th century was a period of extreme poverty thinly veiled by fabulous wealth. However, we should not remember the era only for the strides made by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie or social reformer Jane Addams. All Americans had to adjust to the dynamic social and economic changes of the Gilded Age--the booming industries, growing cities, increased ethnic and cultural diversity. African American W. E. B. Du Bois, Native American Sitting Bull, and Chinese American Saum Song Bo spoke out against racial injustice. European immigrants Mary Antin and Robert Ferrari suffered the pitfalls and praised the opportunities found in their new country. Pioneer Phoebe Judson lamented the loneliness of making a life out West. And workers at Homestead Steel lost their lives in an attempt to improve labor conditions. Drawing from the letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, journals, and speeches of Gilded Age Americans, author Janette Greenwood arranges all of these voices to tell a story more vibrant and textured than the simple tale of robber baron versus starving poor. In addition to these voices, visuals--such as advertisements, maps, political cartoons, and a picture essay on Jacob Riiss urban photographs--create a kaleidoscopic view of the quarter century when diverse Americans struggled for the same goal: a better way of life, with more justice and democracy for each and all. Textbooks may interpret history, but the books in the Pages from History series are history. Each title, compiled and edited by a prominent historian, is a collection of primary sources relating to a particular topic of historical significance. Documentary evidence including news articles, government documents, memoirs, letters, diaries, fiction, photographs, and facsimiles allows history to speak for itself and turns every reader into a historian. Headnotes, extended captions, sidebars, and introductory essays provide the essential context that frames the documents. All the books are amply illustrated and each includes a documentary picture essay, chronology, further reading, source notes, and index.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner,Mark Twain
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294785613

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The Gilded Age by Charles Dudley Warner,Mark Twain Pdf

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