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Marketable Farm Surpluses: Northeastern and Midwestern United States, 1859 and 1860

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Jeremy Atack  and
Fred Bateman
Jeremy Atack
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Fred Bateman
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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This article examines the extent of the potential market surplus by geographic region in the northern United States from Vermont to Minnesota on the eve of the Civil War. Our interest is in measuring the extensiveness and pervasiveness of market commitment, how dependent it was upon the transport system, and at what stage in the settlement life cycle it emerged. This study is designed to complement a similar one by McInnis (1984) for the area just north of the American border, an area then known as Canada West.

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Fall 1984 , pp. 371 - 393
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1984 

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