An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States: 1789-1900 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

T. W. Van Metre

9780666207388: An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States: 1789-1900 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0666207380 ISBN 13: 9780666207388

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Trace the rise of America's internal commerce from the first rough roads to a nationwide market, and see how transport and policy shaped the nation’s growth.

This concise study connects routes, rivers, steamboats, railroads, and trade to explain economic change across regions.

This book surveys the development of internal trade from the early era of rivers and crude roads through the age of steamboats, canals, and railways. It shows how geography, technology, and politics combined to knit a vast economy together and how different regions depended on each other for goods, markets, and credit.

Learn how rivers and roads influenced prices, markets, and middlemen in the western and southern states.
See the rise of the Mississippi as a commercial artery and the impact of steamboats on westward commerce.
Understand the growth of manufacturing, the lumber and iron industries, and the spread of cotton culture.
Discover how politics, finance, and transportation policy reshaped the nation after the Civil War.

Ideal for readers of American economic history, regional development, and the long arc of nationwide markets.

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