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Pages: 650
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-04-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating and maintaining
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-27 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of in
The Company
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Categories: History
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex
Empire of the Bay
Language: en
Pages: 660
Authors: Peter Charles Newman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Penguin Group

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This sweeping volume of the Hudson's Bay Company--consisting of Peter C. Newman's "Company of Adventurers" and "Caesars of the Wilderness"--is also the subject
Empire on the Hudson
Language: en
Pages: 652
Authors: Jameson W. Doig
Categories: History
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Doig traces the evolution of the Port Authority from the battles leading to its creation in 1921 through its conflicts with the railroads and its expansion to b