Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory

Land Sales, Soils and the Settling of the Great Lakes Region in the 19th Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement patterns in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476680675

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Mer om författaren

The late Robert E. Mitchell spent two decades in social science research and teaching at Columbia University, UC-Berkeley, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Florida State University. He then entered the Foreign Service with long-term postings in the Near East and Africa. After his retirement in 1995, he authored a half dozen non-fiction books and many new social and economic history articles. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionGeographic Level 1: A National Overview1. The Invented Markets for Land on the FrontierGeographic Level 2: The Old Northwest Territory2. The Five States of the Old NorthwestGeographic Level 3: Michigan’s Lower Peninsula3. The Privatization of Land in the State of Michigan4. Soils and Settlements in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula Counties5. Rates of Return on Investments in FarmingGeographic Level 4: One Multi-Soils County6. Moving from Macro to Micro-Level History7. The County’s Physical Geography8. The Market and Privatization of Land in a Case-Study Frontier County9. Those Who Farmed or Left Their SoilsSummary, Overview and Next Steps10. Looking BackChapter NotesWorks CitedIndex