John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic

by John D. Haeger

Book Overview

Biography of John Jacob Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860.

John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814343449
• ISBN13: 9780814343449
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"