Opening the West

Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860

AvLaurence Malone

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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Following Frederick Jackson Turner's lead, most economic historians assume the West and its people were shaped by economic determinism. This study proposes a different path. The federal government, Malone claims, opened the frontier before waves of settlers arrived by constructing a network of roads and making improvements to rivers and harbors. The book begins by analyzing federal transportation expenditures from 1800 to 1860 and then moves on to look at early federal improvement programs and their effects on determining the direction of settlement in the New West.Settlement in the New West states—Arkansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota—accelerated after the government's projects were constructed. The tracking of internal improvement expenditures in sparsely settled regions shows the federal government had a significant role in initiating growth prior to the more widely acknowledged railroad developments after mid-century.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-07-17
Mått:156 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions in Economics and Economic History
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313306716

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LAURENCE J. MALONE is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at Hartwick College. He is coeditor, with Robert L. Heilbroner, of The Essential Adam Smith (1986).

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by David O. WhittenThe Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures from 1800 to 1860Federal Internal Improvements and Antebellum American Economic DevelopmentFederal Internal Improvements Expenditures: The Quality of the EvidenceThe Unequal Distribution of Antebellum Federal Internal Improvements ExpendituresFour Tests on the Timing of Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures Per Capita from 1800 to 1860The Consequences of Federal Internal Improvements in the New West Before 1860Federal Internal Improvements Projects and the Pace and Direction of Settlement in the New WestFederal Internal Improvements Expenditures and Growth in the New WestThe Effects of Federal Internal Improvements on Settlement and Growth in Three Counties in the New WestEpilogueAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex