Name: Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (en Inglés)
Price: 78.95 USD
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Author: Laurence Malone
ISBN: 9780313306716

portada Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Praeger

Autor

Laurence Malone

Año

1998

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0313306710

ISBN13

9780313306716

Categorías

Historia de la economía

Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (en Inglés)

Laurence Malone (Autor) · Praeger · Tapa Dura

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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.