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

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• 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