
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I / Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times
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- THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES
- HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES
- GUSTAVUS MYERS
- VOL. I.
- CHICAGO CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY 1910
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART I CONDITIONS IN COLONIAL AND SETTLEMENT TIMES
- PART II THE GREAT LAND FORTUNES
- PART I CONDITIONS IN SETTLEMENT AND COLONIAL TIMES
- CHAPTER I
- THE GREAT PROPRIETARY ESTATES
- THE INTRODUCTION OF BLACK SLAVES.
- FEUDAL GRANTS IN THE NORTH.
- THE DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY.
- OLD WORLD TRADERS BECOME FEUDAL LORDS.
- AN ARISTOCRACY SOLIDLY GROUNDED.
- THE ABASEMENT OF THE WORKERS.
- CHAPTER II
- THE SWAY OF THE LANDGRAVES
- THE COLONIES CARVED INTO GREAT ESTATES.
- THE LANDED PROPRIETORS THE POLITICAL RULERS.
- A CONFLICT BETWEEN LAND MAGNATES AND PEOPLE.
- ATTEMPTED BRIBERY CHARGED.
- VAST ESTATES SECURED BY BRIBERY.
- EFFECTS OF THE LAND SEIZURES.
- ATTEMPT AT CONFISCATION THWARTED.
- HOW THE LORDS OF THE SOIL LIVED.
- THE NASCENT TRADING CLASS.
- DISINTEGRATION OF THE GREAT ESTATES.
- CHAPTER III
- THE RISE OF THE TRADING CLASS
- THE MANORIAL LORDS MONOPOLIZE TRADE.
- THE TRADERS' METHODS.
- THE BONDING OF LABORERS.
- THE FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND.
- "FORCE AS GOOD AS FORCE."
- BRITISH TRADERS' TACTICS.
- CHAPTER IV
- THE SHIPPING FORTUNES
- FORTUNES FROM PRIVATEERING.
- A GLANCE AT OTHER SHIPPING FORTUNES.
- THE WORKERS' MEAGER SHARE.
- CHAPTER V
- THE SHIPPERS AND THEIR TIMES
- COMMERCE SURCHARGED WITH FRAUD.
- MERCHANTS THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY.
- POST-REVOLUTIONARY CONDITIONS.
- PROPERTY'S RULE INTRENCHED.
- THE RIGORS OF LAW ON THE POOR.
- LAW KIND TO THE TRADERS.
- THE PENALTIES OF POVERTY.
- MASTER AND BONDED MAN.
- TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
- THE SHIPPERS' HUGE GRAFT.
- UNITE AGAINST THE WORKER.
- CHAPTER VI
- GIRARD—THE RICHEST OF THE SHIPPERS
- HOW HE BUILT HIS SHIPS.
- A DICTATOR OF FINANCE.
- BRIBERY AND INTIMIDATION.
- THE SOLITARY CRŒSUS.
- "THE GREAT BENEFACTOR."
- A STARK CONTRAST PRESENTED.
- PART II
- THE GREAT LAND FORTUNES
- CHAPTER I
- THE ORIGIN OF HUGE CITY ESTATES
- THE MANORIAL LORDS PASS AWAY.
- FEUDAL TENURES ABOLISHED.
- THE NEW ARISTOCRACY.
- CITY LAND THE SUPREME FACTOR.
- THE INVULNERABLE LANDOWNER.
- A PROLIFIC BREEDER OF WEALTH.
- VAST FORTUNES FROM LAND.
- CHAPTER II
- THE INCEPTION OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE
- ASTOR'S EARLY CAREER.
- HIS METHODS IN BUSINESS.
- MONOPOLY BASED ON FORCE.
- THE DEBAUCHING OF INDIANS.
- VIOLATION OF LAWS.
- PROFIT AND ITS RESULTS.
- A LONG RECORD OF VIOLENCE.
- ASTOR'S ENORMOUS PROFITS.
- CHAPTER III
- THE GROWTH OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE
- ASTOR SUPERIOR TO LAW.
- LAW BREAKERS AND LAW MAKERS.
- ASTOR'S MONOPOLIES.
- ASTOR NOT AN EXCEPTION.
- WHERE WAS FRAUD ABSENT?
- LEGALIZED PIRACY IN ALL BRANCHES OF TRADE.
- A NOTED LAND TRANSACTION.
- THE PUBLIC UPROAR OVER ASTOR'S CLAIM.
- CORRUPT GRANTS OF CITY LAND.
- A PROCESS OF SPOLIATION.
- THE CITY CREATES LANDLORDS.
- MANY PARTICIPANTS IN THE CURRENT FRAUDS.
- PILLAGE, PROFITS AND LAND.
- THE FATE OF OTHERS HIS GAIN.
- CHAPTER IV
- THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE
- BANKS AND THEIR POWER.
- A MANDATE TO PREY.
- COURTS AND CONSTITUTION.
- THE BANKING FRAUDS BEGIN.
- BRIBERY A CRIME IN NAME ONLY.
- ASTOR'S BANKING ACTIVITIES.
- HOW ASTOR SECURED A LEASE.
- WHAT THE WORKER GOT AS WAGES.
- THE WORKINGMEN'S PARTY PROTEST.
- RADICALISM VERSUS RESPECTABILITY.
- THE PANIC OF 1837.
- THE RESULTING WIDESPREAD DESTITUTION.
- PROPERTY AND CRIME.
- THE SYSTEM—HOW IT WORKED.
- CHAPTER V
- THE MOMENTUM OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE
- ASTOR'S WEALTH MULTIPLIES.
- EVASION OF ASSESSMENTS BY THE LANDLORDS.
- DEFRAUDING A FINE ART.
- HOW PUBLIC OPINION WAS MADE.
- THE SANCTITY OF PROPERTY.
- CORRUPTION AT THE POLLS.
- POLITICAL SUBSERVIENCY.
- ASTOR BECOMES AMERICA'S RICHEST MAN.
- ASTOR'S TOWERING WEALTH.
- THE DEATH OF JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
- THE WONDER OF THE AGE.
- CHAPTER VI
- THE PROPULSION OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE
- WILLIAM B. ASTOR'S PARSIMONY.
- THE PURCHASE OF LAWS.
- THE INVERTED NATURE OF SOCIETY.
- THE PREVAILING CORRUPTION.
- BRIBERY AND BUSINESS.
- WATER GRANTS FROM TWEED.
- PROFITING FROM GIGANTIC THEFTS.
- RENTALS FROM DISEASE AND DEATH.
- HUMANITY OF NO CONSEQUENCE.
- AN EXALTED CAPITALIST.
- CHAPTER VII
- THE CLIMAX OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE
- INTERRELATED WEALTH.
- MONEY AND HUMANITY.
- LAW THE STRONGEST ASSET.
- THE BASIS OF WEALTH'S STRUCTURE.
- GREAT THEFTS OF TAXES.
- LICENSED PIRACY RAMPANT.
- THE ASTOR FORTUNE DOUBLES.
- THE QUALITY OF "REFORMERS."
- A VAST ANNUAL INCOME.
- PROXIMITY OF PALACES AND POVERTY.
- CHAPTER VIII
- OTHER LAND FORTUNES CONSIDERED
- THE GOELET FORTUNE.
- ONCE A FARM; NOW OF VAST VALUE.
- MISERS WITH MILLIONS.
- THE THIRD GENERATION.
- WHERE SURPLUS REVENUE HAS GONE.
- THE RHINELANDERS.
- THE SCHERMERHORNS.
- HOW LONGWORTH BEGAN.
- HIS VAGARIES—SO CALLED.
- MARSHALL FIELD AND LEITER.
- FIELD'S MANY POSSESSIONS.
- CHAPTER IX
- THE FIELD FORTUNE IN EXTENSO
- LAND FOR ALMOST NOTHING.
- IT BECOMES WORTH MILLIONS.
- FIELD'S REAL ESTATE TRACTS.
- HIS INCOME: $500 TO $700 AN HOUR.
- HIS EMPLOYEES' WRETCHED WAGES.
- OUTCASTS RATHER THAN SLAVES.
- CENTERING ALL PROFITS IN HIMSELF.
- CHAPTER X
- FURTHER VISTAS OF THE FIELD FORTUNE
- FIELD'S PULLMAN WORKS.
- THE NATURE OF A MODEL TOWN.
- THE PULLMAN EMPLOYEES STRIKE.
- VAST PROFITS AND LOW WAGES.
- "A MODEL OF BUSINESS INTEGRITY."
- HE STEALS MILLIONS IN TAXES.
- PERJURY AND CHEATING COMMON.
- $140,000,000 TO TWO BOYS.
- END OF VOL. I.
- FOOTNOTES:
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