Steven H Gittelman

J.P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings

The Titanic and Other Disasters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman were America's industrial princes, planning to link American railroads and a shipping cartel with a railroad line through China and Russia, then into Europe, and create: the Transportation Kings. Poised for great accomplishment, their story ends in the sinking of the Titanic and bitter failure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rlpg/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780761858508
• ISBN-10: 0761858504
• Artikelnr.: 35214201

Autorenporträt

By Steven H. Gittelman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Early Shipping 2. American Shipping Consortium
3. The Corner 4. Economic Expansion 5. Community of Interest 6. Vanderbilt
7. Marc Hanna 8. The Creation of Political Leadership 9. Roosevelt 10. The
Business of the Presidency 11. The Maritime Subsidy Bill 12. Roosevelt
Rises 13. A Rift Between Friends 14. The Subsidy Bill Under Debate In
Congress 15. Opposition in Congress 16. The Loyal Opposition 17.
Pan-American Exposition 18. A New President 19. An Uninvited Agenda 20. The
Anti-McKinley 21. Hanna's Last Hurrah 22. Financial Contributions to an
Incumbent 23. Harriman and the Far East 24. Competition in the Far East 25.
Global Interference 26. The Panic of 1907 27. Roosevelt is Denied the 1908
Race 28. Hill and the Far East 29. Historic Rivalry 30. Free Ships 31.
Breathing Life into the IMM 32. The American Invaders! 33. Cunard 34. IMM
35. Lusitania, Aquitania, Mauretania and Titanic 36. Investigation and
Aftermath 37. Legacy 38. The End of a Dream Afterword Notes Bibliography
Index About the Author