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American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
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- Summary
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Documents how the Anderson family of eighteenth-century Kentucky worked to amass land while becoming apologists for slavery, Native American removal, and continental expansion.
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- Creator
- Harry S. Stout
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Basic Books, 2017
- Physical Details
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- xix, 411 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465098989, 0465098983, 9780465098996
- OCLC
- ocn975485795
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-386) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Anderson, Richard C. (Richard Clough), 1750-1826 -- Family.
- Anderson, Richard Clough, 1788-1826.
- Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- Case studies.
- Wealth -- United States -- Case studies.
- Landowners -- United States -- Case studies.
- Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.