John Jacob Astor : : Business Man. / Volume I, : John Jacob Astor: Business Man, Volume I.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Porter, Kenneth Wiggins,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1931
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Studies in Business History ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (585 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; LIST OF DOCUMENTS --; EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION --; AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE TO ARRIVAL IN AMERICA 1763–1784 --; CHAPTER II. EARLY YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY TO ESTABLISHMENT AS A RISING YOUNG MERCHANT, 1784–1790 --; CHAPTER III. THE FUR TRADE TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAN FUR COMPANY, 1790–1808 --; NOTES --; CHAPTER IV. LAND INVESTMENTS IN LOWER CANADA AND THE NEW YORK BACKCOUNTRY --; CHAPTER V. GENERAL MERCHANDISING TILL THE CHINA TRADE ASSUMED IMPORTANCE, 1790–1803 --; CHAPTER VI. THE TRADE WITH THE ORIENT UP TO THE WAR 1800-1812 --; CHAPTER VII. THE PACIFIC FUR COMPANY AND ASTORIA: FROM THE INCORPORATION OF THE AMERICAN FUR COMPANY T O THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, 1808–1812 --; CHAPTER VIII. THE PACIFIC FUR COMPANY AND ASTORIA: FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR TO THE FINAL RELINQUISHMENT OF ASTORIA TO THE NORTH WEST COMPANY, 1812-1818 --; CHAPTER IX. THE WAR OF 1812–1815 : THE FUR TRADE --; CHAPTER X. THE WAR OF 1812–1815 : COMMERCE WITH EUROPE AND CANTON --; CHAPTER XI. THE WAR OF 1812–1815 : GOVERNMENT LOANS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE --; DOCUMENTS 1788–1815 --; DOCUMENTS. Part 1 --; DOCUMENTS. Part 2 --; DOCUMENTS. Part 3
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674600126; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674600126
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph