2012 Articles
Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered
The antimonopoly critique of big business that flourished in the United States during the 1880s is a neglected chapter in the history of American reform. In this essay, a revised version of Richard R. John's 2011 Business History Conference presidential address, John shows how this critique found expression in a gallery of influential cartoons that ran in the New York City-based satirical magazines Puck and Judge. Among the topics that the cartoonists featured was the manipulation of the nation's financial markets by financier Jay Gould.
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- Enterprise and Society
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- Cambridge University Press
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- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1467222700010910
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- August 1, 2018