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Author Stout, Harry S., author.

Title American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism / Harry S. Stout.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, 2017.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.5 St75a 2017    ---  Available
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Edition First edition.
Description xix, 411 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
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volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-386) and index.
Summary Documents how the Anderson family of eighteenth-century Kentucky worked to amass land while becoming apologists for slavery, Native American removal, and continental expansion.
Contents Richard Clough Anderson, the Patriarch : 1750-1787 -- Measuring the land : 1787-1796 -- A new generation : 1797-1812 -- Richard the Sage : 1812-1817 -- "My debts must be paid!" :pPolitics and land in the evolving west : 1817-1822 -- An ill-fated mission : 1822-1824 -- A tragic end : 1824-1826 -- The new patriarch : 1826-1834 -- Rocky Mountain highs and real estate lows : 1835-1838 -- A time of testing : 1839-1844 -- Robert's Mexican war : 1844-1848 -- Andersons at home : 1848-1856 -- Times of trial : 1857-1861 -- Charles Anderson's civil war : 1862-1865 -- An ex-Confederate colony : 1865-1866 -- Andersons in transition : 1866-1870 -- Legacies : 1871-1888.
Subject Anderson, Richard C. (Richard Clough), 1750-1826 -- Family.
Anderson, Richard Clough, 1788-1826.
Anderson, Richard C. (Richard Clough), 1750-1826. (OCoLC)fst00235378
Anderson, Richard Clough, 1788-1826. (OCoLC)fst00163804
Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- Case studies.
Wealth -- United States -- Case studies.
Landowners -- United States -- Case studies.
Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
Elite (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst00908113
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Landowners. (OCoLC)fst00991750
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Wealth. (OCoLC)fst01172973
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780465098989 (hardcover)
0465098983 (hardcover)
9780465098996 (ePub ebook)

 
    
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