The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896

From: Business History Review | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Nasaw, David | Copyright information

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. By Sven Beckert. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 512 pp. Photographs, 4 maps, graphs, index. Cloth, $35-00. ISBN 0-521-79039-5.

While American social and labor historians have devoted a great many words to the "making" of an American working class in the nineteenth century, there has been a studied lack of interest in examining the formation of an American "ruling" or "business" or "ca...

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