株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements before 1860. No.196.
商品詳細
Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements before 1860. No.196.
・ISBN 978-0-313-30671-6 cloth GB£ 60.00
￥19,008.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
お気に入り
★★★
| 著者・編者 | Malone, Laurence J., |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Contributions in Economics and Economic History 196 |
| 出版社 | (Greenwood, US) |
| 出版年月 | 1998 |
| ページ数 | 155 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜446-L090＞ |
解説
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.