When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Autor Greg Gordonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mar 2014
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Washington State Book Award (2015)
Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals more than the impersonal forces of political economy shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond s instrumental role in converting the nation s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation.
Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, "When Money Grew on Trees" challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780806144474
ISBN-10: 0806144475
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 163 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10: 0806144475
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 163 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press
Notă biografică
Greg Gordon, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, is the author of Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country.
Premii
- Washington State Book Award Finalist, 2015