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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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by David O. Whitten 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 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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
"Clearly written, this book will appeal to academics interested in the historical relationship between public and private investment in promoting economic development in the 19th century America. Upper-division undergrauduate and up."-Choice "The inventive argument and impressive evidence shed new light on the settlement of the West before the Civil War."-Robert L. Heilbroner Norman Thomas Professor of Economics Emeritus New School for Social Research ?Clearly written, this book will appeal to academics interested in the historical relationship between public and private investment in promoting economic development in the 19th century America. Upper-division undergrauduate and up.?-Choice ?Malone does not do a convincing job of demonstrating that the federal government played an important role in making basic road investments in the territorial perids in each state.?-EH.NET BOOK REVIEW ?Malone's work is full of intense statistical work presented in an interesting way?-JOW "Malone does not do a convincing job of demonstrating that the federal government played an important role in making basic road investments in the territorial perids in each state."-EH.NET BOOK REVIEW "Malone's work is full of intense statistical work presented in an interesting way"-JOW


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780313306716
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Contributions in Economics and Economic History
  • Weight: 425 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0313306710
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 1998
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Sub Title: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
  • Width: 156 mm


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