Judge - A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune

Klappentext Lawyer! judge! banker! classics professor! and councilman! Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown! Pittsburgh! throughout the nineteenth century. Offering characterization of the Scotch-Irish value system that governed the patriarch's work and life! the author captures the judge's complexities and contradictions. Zusammenfassung Lawyer! judge! banker! classics professor! and councilman! Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown! Pittsburgh! throughout the nineteenth century. Offering characterization of the Scotch-Irish value system that governed the patriarch's work and life! the author captures the judge's complexities and contradictions.

Product details

• Authors: James Mellon, Mellon James
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2011
• EAN: 9780300167146
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16714-6
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Pennsylvania, LAW / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking, Banking, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: historical, political and military, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general