Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Grain trade
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Grain Trade in the Old Northwest
Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Grain trade
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Canals For A Nation
Author: Ronald E. ShawPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813145813
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
The Development of the Grain Trade in the East North Central States of the United States from 1815 to 1860
Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grain trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Land, Labor, and Class in the Old Northwest
Author: James Raymond PennPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle West
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Canals For A Nation
Author: Ronald E. ShawPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813145821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
Grand Portage As a Trading Post: Patterns of Trade at the Great Carrying Place
Author: Bruce WhitePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484920961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The purpose of this report is to describe the fur trade that took place at Grand Portage between Europeans and Native Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries. During this period Grand Portage was important for many reasons. A strategic geographical point in the trade route between the Great Lakes and the Canadian Northwest, it was best known as a trade depot and company headquarters in the period between 1765 and 1804.
From Pioneering to Persevering
Author: Paul SalstromPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557534538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality. The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer. Salstrom examines this "independence" and finds the label to be less than adequate. Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing and loaning. When people talk about supporting family farming, as Salstrom notes, the issue is a societal one with a greater population involved than just the farmers themselves.
The Visible Hand
Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674417682
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.
The Visible Hand
Author: Alfred Dupont ChandlerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674940529
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (1850s–1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and central sectors of production and distribution.
The Rise of the Urban South
Author: Lawrence H. LarsenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the needs of their society. In this pioneering exploration of that intricate story, Lawrence H. Larsen shows that in the antebellum period, southern entrepreneurs built cities in layers to facilitate the movement of cotton. First came the colonial cities, followed by those of the piedmont, the New West, the Gulf Coast, and the interior. By the Civil War, cotton could move by a combination of road, rail, and river through a network of cities—for example, from Jackson to Memphis to New Orleans to Europe. In the Gilded Age, building on past practices, the South continued to make urban gains. Men like Henry Grady of Atlanta and Henry Watterson of Louisville used broader regional objectives to promote their own cities. Grady successfully sold Atlanta, one of the most southern of cities demographically, as a city with a northern outlook; Watterson tied Louisville to national goals in railroad building. The New South movement did not succeed in bringing the region to parity with the rest of the nation, yet the South continued to rise along older lines. By 1900, far from being a failure in terms of the general course of American development, the South had created an urban system suited to its needs, while avoiding the promotional frenzy that characterized the building of cities in the North. Based upon federal and local sources, this book will become the standard work on nineteenth-century southern urbanization, a subject too long unexplored.