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

Table of Contents

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 -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VI. THE TRADE WITH THE ORIENT UP TO THE WAR 1800-1812 -- NOTES -- 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 -- NOTES -- 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 -- NOTES -- CHAPTER IX. THE WAR OF 1812–1815 : THE FUR TRADE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER X. THE WAR OF 1812–1815 : COMMERCE WITH EUROPE AND CANTON -- NOTES -- CHAPTER XI. THE WAR OF 1812–1815 : GOVERNMENT LOANS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE -- NOTES -- DOCUMENTS 1788–1815 -- DOCUMENTS. Part 1 -- DOCUMENTS. Part 2 -- DOCUMENTS. Part 3