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“This is a brilliantly conceived, extremely thorough, and eminently satisfying piece of historical scholarship that successfully blends distinctive approaches--economic growth and the role of ideas--into the history of middle western cities. ... Particularly valuable is his closing chapter, which sorts out and analyzes the many strains of thought that made up the booster intellectual tradition; his examination of its relationship to the growth of the statistical method in the study of society is especially original.”–Wisconsin Magazine of History
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The years from 1848 through 1857 were an era of decision for almost every city of the Middle West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
import hinterland, export hinterland, western boosterism, popular economic thought, national armory, railroad convention, lead region, export commerce, consumer goods manufacturing, antebellum decades, urban hinterlands, instant cities, eastern capitalists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chicago Democratic Press, Cincinnati Gazette, United States, Chicago Historical Society, Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Galena Gazette, Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer, Queen City, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial, Illinois Central, Middle West, Indianapolis Sentinel, Galena Jeffersonian, Mississippi Valley, Fort Wayne, Old Northwest, Railroad Record, Chicago Journal, Lake Michigan, First Annual Report, Galena Courier, Ohio Valley New!
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The years from 1848 through 1857 were an era of decision for almost every city of the Middle West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
import hinterland, export hinterland, western boosterism, popular economic thought, national armory, railroad convention, lead region, export commerce, consumer goods manufacturing, antebellum decades, urban hinterlands, instant cities, eastern capitalists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chicago Democratic Press, Cincinnati Gazette, United States, Chicago Historical Society, Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Galena Gazette, Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer, Queen City, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial, Illinois Central, Middle West, Indianapolis Sentinel, Galena Jeffersonian, Mississippi Valley, Fort Wayne, Old Northwest, Railroad Record, Chicago Journal, Lake Michigan, First Annual Report, Galena Courier, Ohio Valley New!
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- Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915 by Catherine Cocks in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 by Robin L. Einhorn on page 63, and Back Matter
- The American West. Visions and Revisions (New Studies in Economic and Social History) by Margaret Walsh in Back Matter
- Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 (Creating the North American Landscape) by Anne E. Mosher in Back Matter
- New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (Studies in Religion) by Don Harrison Doyle in Back Matter
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