Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: Regional Development in Comparative Perspective
- 1 Developmental Corporations in a Slave-Labor Society
- 2 Developmental Corporations in a Free-Labor Society
- 3 Railroads and Local Development
- 4 The Local Politics of Market Development
- 5 Urban Capital and the Superiority of Pennsylvania's Transportation Network
- 6 Why Antebellum Virginians Never Developed a Big City: Comparative Urban Development in Philadelphia and Eastern Virginia
- Epilogue: Railroad Networks and the Civil War
- Appendix on Sources and Methods
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: Regional Development in Comparative Perspective
- 1 Developmental Corporations in a Slave-Labor Society
- 2 Developmental Corporations in a Free-Labor Society
- 3 Railroads and Local Development
- 4 The Local Politics of Market Development
- 5 Urban Capital and the Superiority of Pennsylvania's Transportation Network
- 6 Why Antebellum Virginians Never Developed a Big City: Comparative Urban Development in Philadelphia and Eastern Virginia
- Epilogue: Railroad Networks and the Civil War
- Appendix on Sources and Methods
- Bibliography
- Index
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- A House DividingEconomic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000