Tangled webs : entrepreneurial dreams, imperial designs, and the evolution of nineteenth-century urban elites, St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1849-1883 /

dominant role in the evolution of American life during the nineteenth century--not only creating, growing, and reorganizing firms, but also weaving business, government, and society into an intricate web reflecting the growth-oriented impulses of the expanding American nation. Emerging as important...

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