Makers of Fortune : A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall
R. C. J. Stone
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Auckland : : Auckland University Press, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (267 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Rise of Auckland's Business Community 1841-79; 3 The Setting of the 1880's; 4 The Boom and Slump of the 1880's; 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;. - 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 elite, which had dominated the city's business for a generation and had launched some of New Zealand's most important financial institutions, was discredited. Some of its members were impoverished. In the 1890's this failure was explained in moralistic terms. It was seen as the just penalty for speculation
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| ISBN | 1-77558-587-5
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