Genealogy of the Mangold Family from Bavaria to Cincinnati, 1800 to 1930's

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Henry Clews

The definitive look at Wall Street in the 19th Century Perhaps the 19th century's best book on Wall Street, Fifty Years in Wall Street provides a fascinating look at the financial markets during a period of rapid economic expansion. Henry Clews was a giant figure in finance at that time, and his firsthand account brings this colorful era to life like never before. He reveals shocking stories of political and economic manipulation and how he helped bring down the mighty Boss Tweed. He writes eloquently about the madness of the markets and how the era's greatest speculators amassed their fortunes. This book provides an expansive view of Wall Street in an era of little regulation, rampant political corruption, and rapid financial change. Henry Clews was born in England in 1836 and emigrated to the United States in 1850. In 1859, he cofounded what became the second largest marketer of federal bonds during the Civil War. Later, he organized the "Committee of 70," which deposed the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City, and served as an economic consultant to President Ulysses Grant.

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Philip Mirowski

Practically every scholar who is concerned with the work of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926) feels compelled to preface discussion with some sort of apologia or rationalization. This tendency first surfaced in the context of an abortive attempt to get him elected to the British Royal Society, and things have not improved since his demise. Philip Mirowski contends that the bulk of these compulsive apologies derive from a single source, namely, the pervasive contemporary lack of interest in the intellectual trajectory of Edgeworth's career. Mirowski's introductory essay, in conjunction with the selection of Edgeworth's texts, serve to document a reevaluation, one that aims to recognize him as the dean of the second generation of neoclassical economists. By bringing together the two sides of Edgeworth's vast oeuvre, and by situating Edgeworth's statistical and economic writings in the late-Victorian intellectual context, Mirowski demonstrates that Edgeworth was clearly superior in intellectual tenor to the rest of his cohort of second-generation neoclassicals, who have garnered more than their fair share of attention and lionization by historians of economic thought.

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Eric Hobsbawm

**The Age of Capital: 1848–1875** is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1975. It is the second in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by *The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848* and followed by *The Age of Empire: 1875–1914*. A fourth book, *The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991*, acts as a sequel to the trilogy. (from Wikipedia)

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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism. Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: