Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West - The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St Louis

Zusammenfassung During the mid-1850s powerful political and cultural forces altered the sources of urban growth in the American West. This book demonstrates that the sectional crisis abruptly transformed St Louis's role in the national economy! redirecting the flow of capital and migrants away from St Louis and toward a smaller western city - Chicago. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. 'These Yankee notions will not suit Missouri'; 3. Savagedom, destiny, and the isothermal zodiac; 4. Yankee newcomers and prosperity; 5. 'The offspring of the East'; 6. A border city in an age of sectionalism; 7. Rebirth; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Jeffrey S. Adler, Jeffrey S. (University of Florida) Adler
• Assisted by: Robert Fogel (Editor), Stephan Thernstrom (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521522359
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52235-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries