The first Wall Street : Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of American finance

Publication Data

• Title The first Wall Street : Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of American finance
• Author Robert E. Wright
• Publisher University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Chicago, Ill.
• Language English

Contents

Of financial markets and marketplaces
Colonial precedents
Revolutionary developments
Money, money, money
Hamilton's vision
Hazardous voyages
Building nest eggs and homes
Transportation elation
Philadelphia's finest
Wall Street ascendant
Legacy of growth.

Topics

• Stock exchanges :: Pennsylvania :: Philadelphia :: History
• Stock exchanges :: New York (State) :: New York :: History
• 013301061

The first Wall Street : Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of American finance by Robert E. Wright. ISBN 0226910261. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.