The Development Frontier
Author | : P. T. Bauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1991-02-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674281035 |
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Author | : P. T. Bauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1991-02-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674281035 |
Author | : Wilma A. Dunaway |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807861170 |
In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Author | : Péter Tamás Bauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Bauer (emeritus, London School of Economics) describes and analyzes major features of the emergence of less developed countries from subsistence to exchange economies, and from their subsequent advance. The 17 essays focus on significant topics and issues that are neglected or treated inadequately or inappropriately in the literature on economic development. Six of the essays were written specifically for this volume, two are reprinted with only minor changes, and the remainder are substantially revised versions of previous publications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Kenneth T. Jackson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1987-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199840342 |
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.
Author | : Frederick Jackson Turner |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy
Author | : Yovanna Pineda |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804759839 |
Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances successfully modernized.
Author | : Tim Flannery |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2015-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802191096 |
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).
Author | : Walter Prescott Webb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
ISBN | : 9780874175196 |
The Great Frontier presents a new theory of the history of the Western World since 1492 when Columbus opened the frontier lands to a static European society.
Author | : Péter Tamás Bauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : 9780745010373 |
Author | : James C. Bonner |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820335258 |
Published in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves. He details how the discovery of gold in the Villa Rica area resulted in drunkenness and violence, but also laid the foundations of mining technology that were later used in Colorado and California. The region remained isolated until after the Civil War, when a rail line was constructed to stimulate cotton cultivation. With the development of the railway, Carroll County's frontier traditions waned in the early twentieth century.