Business and politics in America from the age of Jackson to the civil war: The career biogr. of W. W. Corcoran
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Westport, Conn.
Greenwood Publ.
1971
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| Series: | Contributions in economics and economic history
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 409 S. |
| ISBN: | 0837133009 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Business and politics in America from the age of Jackson to the civil war
Autor: Cohen, Henry
Jahr: 1971
Contents
Illustrations xiii
Preface xv
Part I
CORCORAN RIGGS, GOVERNMENT BANKERS
1 The Founding, 1836-1841 3
The Origins of Corcoran s Career 3
Government Business and the Riggs Connection 7
George Newbold and the Bank War 10
The Founding of Corcoran Riggs 13
2 The Whig Moment and the Tyler Transition,
1841-1844 18
Shifting Treasury Alliances Under Ewing and
Forward 18
Alliance with Newbold 21
3 At the Centers of American Finance, 1844-1847 24
The Completion of the Tyler Transition 24
ix
CONTENTS
Walker and the Polk Administration 31
Banker to the Independent Treasury 34
4 Financing the Mexican War 40
The Lines Form 40
The Loan of 1847 45
The Loan of 1848 in Domestic and International
Finance 49
5 The Mexican Indemnity: A Chapter in Finance,
Diplomacy, and Politics 63
Mexican Debts and Beckoning Profits 63
The Goal of Interocean Transit 64
Polk s Conciliatory Policy Aborted 65
The Taylor Administration and the First Installment 68
Clayton Muddles Toward a New Policy 71
Debts, Development, and Bribery 74
The God-like Daniel, the Golden Calf, and the
Use of Power 77
Demoralization and Success 83
Conclusions 89
6 The End of the Firm s Governmental Role 92
Dismissal 92
Risk Avoided, Opportunity Lost 94
Toward an Active Retirement 98
7 Summation: The Fragmentation of American
Finance 102
Part II
THE POLITICS OF SPECIAL INTERESTS
8 A Businessman and Politicians 109
The Collins Line 109
Some Other Collaborations 113
CONTENTS XI
9 The Claims Business ii8
io Creditor Politics 128
The Texas Debt 128
The California Debt 143
Florida Debts 144
Arkansas Bonds and Politics 145
Mississippi Bonds and Politics 147
Loans to Frontier Towns 15 !
Yulee and the Florida Railroad 154
The Moral Man Offended 156
11 The Great Superior Scheme: Continental Ambitions
in Townsites, Railroads, and Politics 159
Conception 159
Town-building 163
Douglas and the Illinois Central Railroad 165
The Minnesota North Western Railroad Land
Grant i73
The Struggle for Power in Minnesota 178
Another Opportunity: Wisconsin I92
The Bubbles Burst 199
12 Success 202
The Making of a President 202
Civil War, Exile, Return 207
Passing into the Past 214
13 Disintegration in an Age of Progress 225
Abbreviations 233
Notes 237
Bibliography 371
Index 393
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| title | Business and politics in America from the age of Jackson to the civil war The career biogr. of W. W. Corcoran |
| title_auth | Business and politics in America from the age of Jackson to the civil war The career biogr. of W. W. Corcoran |
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| title_fullStr | Business and politics in America from the age of Jackson to the civil war The career biogr. of W. W. Corcoran |
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