ACLS Humanities E-Book: The enterprise of a free people: aspects of economic development in New York State during the canal period, 1792-1838

The enterprise of a free people: aspects of economic development in New York State during the canal period, 1792-1838

Miller, Nathan, 1917-

Year: 1962.

Publisher: Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowlegments

Introduction

One The Canal Era and the Mercantilitic Tradition

I The Tradition

20 Private Enterprise as a Premature Experiment

III The Self-reliant State

IV Reconciliation of Sectional Differences

Two Sources of Capital for the Erie and Champlain Canals

V TheFuse of Domestic Investment

VI Th Explosion of Foreign Capital

Three The Canal Fund as a Force for Development

VII Diffusing the Canal Fund's Revenues

VIII A Bank for Development

IX The Panic of 1834

X The Great Fire of 1835

Four The Canal Fund and the Anglo-American Economy

XI The Panic of 1837

XII Support for the Banks

XIII Banks, Politics, an dthe Struggle with Philadelphia

Five Conclusion

Appendix I Loans from the Canal Fund to Banks

Appendix II Deposits from the Canal Fund in Banks

Appendix III Two "Loan-Contractor" Baks

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

The enterprise of a free people : aspects of economic development in New York State during the canal period, 1792-1838 by Nathan Miller.

Author:

Miller, Nathan, 1917-

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The enterprise of a free people : aspects of economic development in New York State during the canal period, 1792-1838 by Nathan Miller.
Miller, Nathan, 1917-
Ithaca, N.Y.: Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press, 1962.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00287

Subject Headings:

• New York (State) -- Economic conditions
• Erie Canal (N.Y.)
• Champlain Canal (N.Y.)

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