Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age - Softcover

Larson, John Lauritz

 
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Book by Larson, John Lauritz

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John Lauritz Larson is professor of history at Purdue University. For ten years he served as co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He is the author of Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age (1984) and Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the New United States (2001), as well as numerous essays on early American economic development.

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“... illuminates a pattern of eastern domination and local dependency in western railroad development. . . . [A] well-written, sophisticated study.” -- I>Journal of American History

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