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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Table of Contents:
- 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