House Dividing

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Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War

Autor: John Majewski

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Cambridge University Press

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A House Dividing compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to answer a crucial question of American history...

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Autor

John Majewski

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2006

Stránok

236

EAN

9780521025362

ISBN

0521025362

Enbook ID

02018549

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

366

Rozmery

231 x 212 x 14

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A House Dividing compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to answer a crucial question of American history: how did slavery undermine the development of the southern economy? Extensive archival research reveals that in the first decades of the nineteenth century, local residents in each state financed transportation improvements to raise land values and spur commercial growth. In the 1830s, however, Philadelphia capitalists began financing Pennsylvania's railroad network, eventually building integrated systems that reached deep within the Midwest. Virginia's railroads, still dependent upon local investment and funds from the state government, remained a collection of local lines without western connections. The lack of a great city that could provide capital and traffic for large-scale railroads was the Achilles' heel of Virginia's slave economy. The chains of slavery, Virginians learned to their dismay, also shackled the invisible hand of the market.

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