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Opening the West - Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (Hardcover, New)
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Opening the West - Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions in Economics and Economic History
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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.
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