Bibliograph

American aristocrats, a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism, Harry S. Stout

Type

Label

American aristocrats, a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism, Harry S. Stout

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-386) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American aristocrats

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

975485795

Responsibility statement

Harry S. Stout

Sub title

a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism

Summary

Documents how the Anderson family of eighteenth-century Kentucky worked to amass land while becoming apologists for slavery, Native American removal, and continental expansion

Table Of Contents

Richard Clough Anderson, the Patriarch : 1750-1787 -- Measuring the land : 1787-1796 -- A new generation : 1797-1812 -- Richard the Sage : 1812-1817 -- "My debts must be paid!" :pPolitics and land in the evolving west : 1817-1822 -- An ill-fated mission : 1822-1824 -- A tragic end : 1824-1826 -- The new patriarch : 1826-1834 -- Rocky Mountain highs and real estate lows : 1835-1838 -- A time of testing : 1839-1844 -- Robert's Mexican war : 1844-1848 -- Andersons at home : 1848-1856 -- Times of trial : 1857-1861 -- Charles Anderson's civil war : 1862-1865 -- An ex-Confederate colony : 1865-1866 -- Andersons in transition : 1866-1870 -- Legacies : 1871-1888

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