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Explores how Ohiou2009—u2009as a “public enterprise state,” creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and controlu2009—u2009led in the process of economic change before the Civil War.

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“Ohio Canal Era is a classic that ought to be read in every generation. It’s wonderful to have it back in print.”
“The classic study of canal development in the Old Northwest.” * author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West *
“A monumental and still definitive study of law and the economy in an American state.”
“This is a thoughtful, impressively well-informed, and perceptive study. It presents a careful, balanced, judicious, and non-doctrinaire analysis and discussion of the numerous elements in the economic growth and change in Ohio. It will be welcomed by all students of nineteenth-century United States history, and it ought to be required reading for economists and others who talk glibly about economic development as if it were a simple process.” * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *

Ohio Canal Era A Case Study of Government and

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: 12/01/2012
      ISBN13: 9780821419793, 978-0821419793
      ISBN10: 082141979X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores how Ohiou2009—u2009as a “public enterprise state,” creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and controlu2009—u2009led in the process of economic change before the Civil War.

      Trade Review
      “Ohio Canal Era is a classic that ought to be read in every generation. It’s wonderful to have it back in print.”
      “The classic study of canal development in the Old Northwest.” * author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West *
      “A monumental and still definitive study of law and the economy in an American state.”
      “This is a thoughtful, impressively well-informed, and perceptive study. It presents a careful, balanced, judicious, and non-doctrinaire analysis and discussion of the numerous elements in the economic growth and change in Ohio. It will be welcomed by all students of nineteenth-century United States history, and it ought to be required reading for economists and others who talk glibly about economic development as if it were a simple process.” * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *

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