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Andrew Schocket - Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia - 9780875803692 - V9780875803692
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Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

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Description for Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia Hardback. Analyzes the establishment, growth, and operations of both commercial and municipal corporations in the nation's premier city, Philadelphia. This work argues that corporations helped to generate the relatively diffuse prosperity of the early national period. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HBJK; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.

During its first heady decades, the United States promised to become a fully democratic society with unprecedented liberty and opportunity. Yet, as political rights spread, a rising elite gained control over the sources of prosperity by means of the institution that has since come to symbolize capitalist America—the corporation. In this study, Andrew M. Schocket analyzes the establishment, growth, and operations of both commercial and municipal corporations in the nation's premier city, Philadelphia.

From the 1780s through the 1820s, members of Philadelphia's privileged class formed corporations in order to consolidate their capital and political influence. By controlling regional transportation networks ... Read more

At the same time, corporations answered needs that private individuals or partnerships could not—and government, uncertain of its own authority, would not—supply. Resolving the apparent contradiction between the spread of political democracy and the consolidation of economic power, Schocket provocatively argues that corporations helped to generate the relatively diffuse prosperity of the early national period. Though controlled by the few, they offered services that allowed middle-class entrepreneurs to flourish. This mixed legacy has resulted in the continuing ambivalence toward U.S. corporations today.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875803692
SKU
V9780875803692
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About Andrew Schocket
Andrew M. Schocket is Assistant Professor of History at Bowling Green State University.

Reviews for Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
In this deeply researched, richly detailed case study of the origins of corporate power in the new nation's "first city," Andrew M. Schocket deftly unravels an enigma that has plagued historians and observers of the early republic since Alexis de Tocqueville disembarked in Philadelphia in 1831.
The Journal of American History
This intelligent book considers a central issue ... Read more

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