Publisher Description
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
History of the Great American Fortunes Volume One of Three Volumes by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr 1909.
Note – This book is ‘read as written’. It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.
Contents:
Preface
Part I: Conditions in Colonial and Settlement Times
Chapter:
I. The Great Proprietary Estates
II. The Sway of the Landgraves
III. The Rise of the Trading Class
IV. The Shipping Fortunes
V. The Shippers and Their Times
VI. Girard—The Richest of the Shippers
Part II: The Great Land Fortunes
I. The Origin of Huge City Estates
II. The Inception of the Astor Fortune
III. The Growth of the Astor Fortune
IV. The Ramifications of the Astor Fortune
V. The Momentum of the Astor Fortune
VI. The Propulsion of the Astor Fortune
VII. The Climax of the Astor Fortune
VIII. Other Land Fortunes Considered
IX. The Field Fortune in Extenso
X. Further Vistas of the Field Fortune
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
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