River of Enterprise - The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850

Only as regional commercial concerns gave way to statewide industrial concerns, and as artificial transportation networks such as canals and railroads supplanted the river, did those living to the north define the Ohio as a boundary.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Across the Mountains

1.Claiming Space

2.Planting a Place

Part II: The Western Country

3.Creating a Subregional Hub

4.Connecting East and West

5.The Dimensions of Riverine Economy

6.The Western Country

Part III: The Buckeye State

7.Ohio's Economy Transformed

8.A New Sense of Place

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Kim M. Gruenwald is Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University.

Summary

Explores the role the Ohio played in the lives of three generations of settlers from the river's headwaters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky. This book studies the local, regional, and national connections created by merchants by tracing the business world of the Woodbridge family of Marietta, Ohio.

Product details

• Authors: K. Gruenwald, Kim M Gruenwald, Kim M. Gruenwald, Gruenwald Kim M
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2002
• EAN: 9780253341327
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34132-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 246 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: Midwestern History and Culture; Midwestern History and Culture; Midwestern History & Culture (
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous