BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Richard Clough Anderson, the patriarch: 1750-1787 -- Measuring the land: 1787-1796 -- A new generation: 1797-1812 -- Richard the sage: 1812-1817 -- "My debts must be paid!" : politics and land in the evolving West: 1817-1822 -- An ill-fated mission: 1822-1824 -- A tragic end: 1824-1826 -- The new patriarch: 1826-1834 -- Rocky Mountain highs and real estate lows: 1835-1838 -- A time of testing: 1839-1844 -- Robert's Mexican war: 1844-1848 -- Andersons at home: 1848-1856 -- Times of trial: 1857-1861 -- Charles Anderson's civil war: 1862-1865 -- An ex-Confederate colony: 1865-1866 -- Andersons in transition: 1866-1870 -- Legacies: 1871-1888. |
Summary |
"The Anderson family of Kentucky was a close-knit and ambitious clan who believed passionately in the promise of America. As the American experiment shifted from colonies to nation, they sought to tie their fortunes to the country they were striving to bring into being. Beginning in 1773 with the family patriarch, Colonel Richard Clough Anderson Sr., a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero rewarded with the prized position of surveyor general, the Anderson men quickly made names for themselves. Congressmen, diplomats, military men, and farmers, they would engage in the exhilarating world of speculation. In American Aristocrats, historian Harry S. Stout argues that the story of the Andersons is also the story of the birth of capitalism in the United States. Unlike in hierarchical, aristocratic Europe, in the newly independent nation, white men of middling station could buy and sell vast tracts of land.Typical of the new frontier elites, the Anderson family streamed west, eagerly participating in a massive land grab. In the process, they became apologists for slavery and Indian removal, worried anxiously that the volatility of their investments, and of the capitalist system itself, might result in their ruin. Drawing on a vast store of Anderson family records, Stout reconstructs their journey to great wealth as they rode out the cataclysms of their time, from financial panics to the Civil War and beyond." -- Jacket. |
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Stout, Harry S., author. American aristocrats New York : Basic Books, [2017] 9780465098996 |
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Anderson, Richard C. (Richard Clough), 1750-1826 -- Family.
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Anderson, Richard Clough, 1788-1826.
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Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- Case studies.
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Wealth -- United States -- Case studies.
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Landowners -- United States -- Case studies.
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Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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ISBN |
9780465098989
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9780465098989
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0465098983
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