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Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Richard R. John
Richard R. John*
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Columbia University, New York, NY. E-mail: rrj2115@columbia.edu.
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Abstract

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 & Society , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 1 - 38
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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