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• catalog abstract ""Howard Wachtel's book provides a fascinating account of the origins of Wall Street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and into the twentieth century, he charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the centre of world finance that we see today. Drawing on original archive research, and illustrated throughout with photographs, Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts is a lively and informative narrative that reads not only as a popular history of one of America's great icons, but also as a critical assessment of Wall Street's role in the political, economic and cultural evolution of the country." "Wachtel looks at the key characters - both better-known and lesser-known - who shaped the course of Wall Street's early years; he traces its wider social history and its physical development and architecture; he focuses on the New York Stock Exchange as the most important institution on the street, including a wider history of banking houses and competing exchanges; he explores how Wall Street has influenced politics, and how it has been shaped by larger political forces around it; and he examines its love-hate relationship with two other streets - Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street - the forces of government and the people of America."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13022573.
• catalog coverage "Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) History 19th century.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""Howard Wachtel's book provides a fascinating account of the origins of Wall Street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and into the twentieth century, he charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the centre of world finance that we see today. Drawing on original archive research, and illustrated throughout with photographs, Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts is a lively and informative narrative that reads not only as a popular history of one of America's great icons, but also as a critical assessment of Wall Street's role in the political, economic and cultural evolution of the country." "Wachtel looks at the key characters - both better-known and lesser-known - who shaped the course of Wall Street's early years; he traces its wider social history and its physical development and architecture; he focuses on the New York Stock Exchange as the most important institution on the street, including a wider history of banking houses and competing exchanges; he explores how Wall Street has influenced politics, and how it has been shaped by larger political forces around it; and he examines its love-hate relationship with two other streets - Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street - the forces of government and the people of America."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.".
• catalog description "The big bang: Alexander Hamilton and the origins of Wall Street -- Lex Mercatoria -- Jackson and the 1830s bank war -- The new metropolis -- Wall Street and the Civil War -- Wars, other than civil -- Trustee over the nation's economy -- The American century.".
• catalog extent "xv, 239 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Street of dreams--boulevard of broken hearts.".
• catalog identifier "0745319254 (hardback)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Street of dreams--boulevard of broken hearts.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press,".
• catalog relation "Street of dreams--boulevard of broken hearts.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "332.64/273/09034 21".
• catalog subject "HG4572 .W23 2003".
• catalog subject "Stock exchanges United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Wall Street History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The big bang: Alexander Hamilton and the origins of Wall Street -- Lex Mercatoria -- Jackson and the 1830s bank war -- The new metropolis -- Wall Street and the Civil War -- Wars, other than civil -- Trustee over the nation's economy -- The American century.".
• catalog title "Street of dreams--boulevard of broken hearts : Wall Street's first century / Howard M. Wachtel.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".