| Title | Essays on the economy of the old Northwest / edited by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder.
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| Published | Athens : Ohio University Press, c1987.
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| Description | xii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8214-0875-5 : $32.95 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographies.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The great land ordinances : colonial America's thumbprint on history / Jonathan Hughes -- The Northwest Ordinance in historical perspective / Douglass C. North and Andrew R. Rutten -- O pioneers : land speculation and the growth of the Midwest / Stanley Lebergott -- The first privatization movement / Terry L. Anderson -- Yankee farming and settlement in the Old Northwest : a comparative analysis / Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman -- Labor force changes in the Old Northwest / Eleanor von Ende and Thomas Weiss -- Tocqueville's view of the Northwest in 1835 : Ohio a generation after settlement / Lee C. Soltow -- Structural and ideological dimensions of literacy and education in the Old Northwest / Edward W. Stevens, Jr. -- Postbellum banking and financial markets in the Old Northwest / Gene Smiley -- River transportation and the Old Northwest Territory / Gary M. Walton.
Native origins of modern industry : heavy industrialization in the Old Northwest before 1900 / William N. Parker -- The nature of Midwest manufacturing in 1890 / David C. Klingaman -- Economic growth and decline in the Old Northwest / Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway.
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| Subjects | Northwest, Old -- Economic conditions.
Northwest, Old -- History.
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| Other Authors | Klingaman, David C.
Vedder, Richard K.
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| LC Card Number | 87-24701 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: HC 107 A14 E79
mq28953: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 21840] |
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