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050 00 $aHG5131.P5$bW75 2005
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100 1 $aWright, Robert E.$q(Robert Eric),$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001102169
245 14 $aThe first Wall Street :$bChestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of American finance /$cRobert E. Wright.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2005.
300 $avii, 210 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
520 1 $a"The First Wall Street recounts the history of Chestnut Street and its forgotten role in the birth of American finance. According to Robert E. Wright, Philadelphia blossomed into a financial epicenter during the nation's colonial period because the city was known for its cultivation of liberty and freedom. The continent's most prodigious minds and talented financiers flocked to Philly in droves, and by the eve of the Revolution, the Quaker City was the most financially sophisticated region in North America. The First Wall Street reveals how Philly played a leading role in the financing of the American Revolution and emerged from that titanic struggle with not just the wealth it forged in the crucible of war but an invaluable amount of human capital as well." "This capital helped make Philadelphia home to the Bank of the United States, the U.S. Mint, an active securities exchange, and several banks and insurance companies - all clustered in or around Chestnut Street. But as the decades passed, the district would slowly lose its appeal, and here Wright charts how New York began to lure financial institutions away from Philadelphia, attracting a whole new generation of financiers to Manhattan. By the late 1820s, only the powerful second Bank of the United States upheld Philadelphia's financial stature. But when Andrew Jackson vetoed its charter, he sealed the fate of Chestnut Street forever - and of Wall Street too." "The First Wall Street will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the United States and the origins of its unrivaled economy."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aStock exchanges$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory.
650 0 $aStock exchanges$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aStock exchanges$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005009428.html
852 00 $bglx$hHG5131.P5$iW75 2005