Opening the West Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860

Name: Opening the West Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
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ISBN: 9780313306716

ISBN-10: 0313306710

ISBN-13: 9780313306716

Edition: 1998

Authors: Laurence Malone

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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…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 7/17/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgments



The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures from 1800 to 1860



Federal Internal Improvements and Antebellum American Economic Development



Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures: The Quality of the Evidence



The Unequal Distribution of Antebellum Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures



Four Tests on the Timing of Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures Per Capita from 1800 to 1860



The Consequences of Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures in the New West before 1860



Federal Internal Improvements Projects and the Pace and Direction of Settlement in the New West



Federal Internal Improvements Expenditures and Growth in the New West



The Effects of Federal Internal Improvements on Settlement and Growth in Three Counties in the New West


Epilogue


Appendix A


Appendix B


Bibliography


Index