The Grain Trade in the Old Northwest
Author : John Garretson Clark
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Grain trade
ISBN :
Author : John Garretson Clark
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Grain trade
ISBN :
Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0813145813
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.
Author : John Garretson Clark
Publisher :
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Grain trade
ISBN :
Author : James Raymond Penn
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Middle West
ISBN :
Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0813145821
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.
Author : Bruce White
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781484920961
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.
Author : Paul Salstrom
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557534538
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.
Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674417682
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.
Author : Alfred Dupont Chandler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674940529
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.
Author : Lawrence H. Larsen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813194741
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.