Abstract
One of my colleagues likes to say that if a subject was worth one book, it was worth more than one. A comparison of two books on the development of New York City's manufacturing, commercial and financial elite demon-strates how differences in theoretical approaches, research materials and literary form can lead in significantly different directions. Beckert depicts the rise of the bourgeois class in the late nineteenth century with touches of tragedy and irony. Kessner's capitalists, while flawed, particularly in their mistreatment of labour, tend to come across as heroes who make America a dominant world power.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 345-351 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Urban History |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2005 |
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- Geography, Planning and Development
- Urban Studies
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All politics are global : Nineteenth-century New York history in its own world wide web. / Soffer, Jonathan.
In: Urban History, Vol. 32, No. 2, 08.2005, p. 345-351.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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