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Makers of Fortune : a Colonial Business Community and Its Fall.
So many businesses rose and fell in nineteenth-century Auckland that the city was called a 'graveyard of enterprise'. By far the most serious and general collapse came during the decade of depression and banking crises which overtook the whole colony after 1885. Auckland's commercial...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Auckland University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Rise of Auckland's Business Community 1841-79; 3 The Setting of the 1880s; 4 The Boom and Slump of the 1880s; 5 Companies; 6 Timber; 7 Urban Real Estate; 8 Merchant Princes: Thomas Morrin and J.C. Firth; 9 Dr John Logan Campbell; 10 Thomas Russell and his Associates; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.