Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8067-5 (ISBN)
Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement patterns in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail.
The late Robert E. Mitchell spent two decades in social science research and teaching at Columbia University, UC-Berkeley, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Florida State University. He then entered the Foreign Service with long-term postings in the Near East and Africa. After his retirement in 1995, he authored a half dozen non-fiction books and many new social and economic history articles. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Geographic Level 1: A National Overview
1. The Invented Markets for Land on the Frontier
Geographic Level 2: The Old Northwest Territory
2. The Five States of the Old Northwest
Geographic Level 3: Michigan’s Lower Peninsula
3. The Privatization of Land in the State of Michigan
4. Soils and Settlements in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula Counties
5. Rates of Return on Investments in Farming
Geographic Level 4: One Multi-Soils County
6. Moving from Macro to Micro-Level History
7. The County’s Physical Geography
8. The Market and Privatization of Land in a Case-Study Frontier County
9. Those Who Farmed or Left Their Soils
Summary, Overview and Next Steps
10. Looking Back
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.06.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 336 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8067-1 / 1476680671 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8067-5 / 9781476680675 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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