Finance and Enterprise in Early America : : A Study of Stephen Girard's Bank, 1812-1831 / / Donald R. Adams, Jr.

Stephen Girard, the second richest American of his time (after John Jacob Astor), was the last of the great merchant bankers and the first of the great investment bankers. This is a study not only of an influential man and the bank he operated in Philadelphia but also of the growing interdependence...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1978
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (166 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Tables --
Acknowledgments --
1. Introduction --
2. The Birth of a Banking Enterprise --
3. War and Legislative Opposition, 1812-1814 --
4. Suspension and The Bank of the United States, 1814-1819 --
5. Competition and Cooperation --
6. Institutional Philosophy --
7. Structure and Performance --
8. A Final Accounting --
Notes --
Note on Manuscript Sources --
Index
Summary:Stephen Girard, the second richest American of his time (after John Jacob Astor), was the last of the great merchant bankers and the first of the great investment bankers. This is a study not only of an influential man and the bank he operated in Philadelphia but also of the growing interdependence between the institutions of government and finance in early nineteenth-century America.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512800012
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512800012
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Donald R. Adams, Jr.