Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861

by Harry N. Scheiber

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Explores how Ohio - as a "public enterprise state," creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and control - led in the process of economic change before the Civil War.

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Harry N. Scheiber is the Riesenfeld Chair Professor of Law and History in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Among his other publications arc American Economic History; American Law and the Constitutional Order; Inter-Allied Conflicts and Ocean Law; The State and Freedom of Contract; The Wilson Administration and Civil show more Liberties; and some 150 articles in journals of history, law, economics, and political science. show less

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Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Economics, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
386.48Society, Government, and CultureCommerce, communications & transportation regulationsInland waterway and ferry transportationCanals
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HE395 .O34 .S34Social sciencesTransportation and communicationsTransportation and communicationsWater transportationWaterways
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