Oleander Odyssey epub
Oleander Odyssey epub
Oleander Odyssey by Hyman- H
---------------------------------------------------------------
Author: Hyman- H
Page Count: 512 pages
Published Date: 15 Jun 2006
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Publication Country: College Station, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780890964385
Download Link: Oleander Odyssey
---------------------------------------------------------------
When Harris Kempner arrived at Ellis Island in 1854, he was an uneducated immigrant teenager escaping anti-Semitism and conscription into the czar's army. When he died forty years later, he was a millionaire and had instilled in his descendants the ideals of private enterprise, public service, and harmonious family cohesion that have made the Kempner family a major force in Galveston for a century. After establishing himself as a peddler in East Texas and later expanding his business as a cotton factor and wholesaler and relocating to Galveston, Kempner had risen high in Island business and social hierarchies when he died prematurely, in 1894. Harris's twenty-one-year-old son Ike became head of the family along with his mother, and he expanded the business to include international trade in cotton, plus subsidiaries in banking and insurance. The family transformed Sugar Land, Texas, and the Imperial Sugar Company from a notoriously abusive operation to a model company town and successful business. The Kempners' main center of operations was Galveston, which survived the devastating Great Storm of 1900 substantially because of the initiative and leadership of Ike Kempner, who directed relief efforts and instigated plans for the seawall, the causeway to the mainland, and the grade-raising project to elevate the city. The complete archives of the Kempner family papers housed at the Rosenberg Library in Galveston provided the primary source material for this work, and Harold Hyman's further research provides a backdrop of social, political, and religious factors affecting four generations of Kempners in Galveston. The result is a story about large, diverse family businesses, Progressive urban reform and community development, the acculturation of American and Southern Jews, and the dynamics of life, politics, and the economy in Southeast Texas.
Read online Oleander Odyssey Buy Oleander Odyssey Download Oleander Odyssey ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Oleander Odyssey ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent
Harmonics of Evolution : The Philosophy of Individual Life, Based Upon Natural Science, as Taught by Modern Masters of the Law, Volume 1 download pdf
National Defense : Managing and Accounting for Property Furnished to Defense Contractors download book
pokemon snake wood submarine key chains
cisco unified ip color key expansion module configure
Download pdf Back on Campus: Pt. 3
Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Volume 5 : Zechariah, Malachi ebook
Oleander Odyssey by Hyman- H
Author: Hyman- H
Page Count: 512 pages
Published Date: 15 Jun 2006
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Publication Country: College Station, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780890964385
Download Link: Oleander Odyssey
---------------------------------------------------------------
When Harris Kempner arrived at Ellis Island in 1854, he was an uneducated immigrant teenager escaping anti-Semitism and conscription into the czar's army. When he died forty years later, he was a millionaire and had instilled in his descendants the ideals of private enterprise, public service, and harmonious family cohesion that have made the Kempner family a major force in Galveston for a century. After establishing himself as a peddler in East Texas and later expanding his business as a cotton factor and wholesaler and relocating to Galveston, Kempner had risen high in Island business and social hierarchies when he died prematurely, in 1894. Harris's twenty-one-year-old son Ike became head of the family along with his mother, and he expanded the business to include international trade in cotton, plus subsidiaries in banking and insurance. The family transformed Sugar Land, Texas, and the Imperial Sugar Company from a notoriously abusive operation to a model company town and successful business. The Kempners' main center of operations was Galveston, which survived the devastating Great Storm of 1900 substantially because of the initiative and leadership of Ike Kempner, who directed relief efforts and instigated plans for the seawall, the causeway to the mainland, and the grade-raising project to elevate the city. The complete archives of the Kempner family papers housed at the Rosenberg Library in Galveston provided the primary source material for this work, and Harold Hyman's further research provides a backdrop of social, political, and religious factors affecting four generations of Kempners in Galveston. The result is a story about large, diverse family businesses, Progressive urban reform and community development, the acculturation of American and Southern Jews, and the dynamics of life, politics, and the economy in Southeast Texas.
Read online Oleander Odyssey Buy Oleander Odyssey Download Oleander Odyssey ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Oleander Odyssey ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent
Other posts:
Fundamentos de Geometria : Desde Pitagoras Hasta La Carrera Espacial bookHarmonics of Evolution : The Philosophy of Individual Life, Based Upon Natural Science, as Taught by Modern Masters of the Law, Volume 1 download pdf
National Defense : Managing and Accounting for Property Furnished to Defense Contractors download book
pokemon snake wood submarine key chains
cisco unified ip color key expansion module configure
Download pdf Back on Campus: Pt. 3
Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Volume 5 : Zechariah, Malachi ebook