Gentlemen Bankers : The World of J. P. Morgan / Susie J. Pak.
Pak, Susie J., author.
2013
HG2471 .P35 2013
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Title Gentlemen Bankers : The World of J. P. Morgan / Susie J. Pak.
Author Pak, Susie J., author.
ISBN 9780674075573
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075573
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (368 p.) : 18 halftones, 6 maps, 11 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674075573 doi
Call Number HG2471 .P35 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.1/230973
Summary Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the twentieth century, private banking was a personal enterprise in which business relationships were a statement of identity and reputation. In an era when ethnic and religious differences were pronounced and anti-Semitism was prevalent, Anglo-American and German-Jewish elite bankers lived in their respective cordoned communities, seldom interacting with one another outside the business realm. Ironically, the tacit agreement to maintain separate social spheres made it easier to cooperate in purely financial matters on Wall Street. But as Susie Pak demonstrates, the Morgans' exceptional relationship with the German-Jewish investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., their strongest competitor and also an important collaborator, was entangled in ways that went far beyond the pursuit of mutual profitability. Delving into the archives of many Morgan partners and legacies, Gentlemen Bankers draws on never-before published letters and testimony to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Series Harvard Studies in Business History ; ; 51
In E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013
E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: Gentlemen Banking Before 1914
CHAPTER TWO: The Social World of Private Bankers
CHAPTER THREE: Anti-Semitism in Economic Networks
CHAPTER FOUR: Disrupting the Balance: The Great War
CHAPTER FIVE: The Significance of Social Ties: Harvard
CHAPTER SIX: Complex International Alliances: Japan
CHAPTER SEVEN: The End of Private Banking at the Morgans
CONCLUSION: Writing the History of Networks
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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