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J.P. Morgan and the transportation kings : the Titanic and other disasters /

The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty, the transportation Kings. Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan and Harriman all pursued the grand dream. They were America...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gittelman, Steven H., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2012]
Subjects:
Merchant marine > United States > History > 20th century.
Merchant marine > United States > History > 19th century.
Morgan, J. Pierpont > (John Pierpont), > 1837-1913.
Capitalists and financiers > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Early shipping
  • American shipping consortium
  • The corner
  • Economic expansion
  • Community of interest
  • Vanderbilt
  • Marc Hanna
  • The creation of political leadership
  • Roosevelt
  • The business of the presidency
  • The maritime subsidy bill
  • Roosevelt rises
  • A rift between friends
  • The subsidy bill under debate in congress
  • Opposition in congress
  • The loyal opposition
  • Pan-American exposition
  • A new president
  • An uninvited agenda
  • The anti-McKinley
  • Hanna's last hurrah
  • Financial contributions to an incumbent
  • Harriman and the Far East
  • Competition in the Far East
  • Global interference
  • The Panic of 1907
  • Roosevelt is denied the 1908 Race
  • Hill and the Far East
  • Historic rivalry
  • Free ships
  • Breathing life into the IMM
  • The American invaders!
  • Cunard
  • IMM
  • Lusitania, Aquitania, Mauretania and Titanic
  • Investigation and aftermath
  • Legacy
  • The end of a dream
  • Afterword.