The wage-earner in the westward movement
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 50, S. 161-185
ISSN: 0032-3195
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In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 50, S. 161-185
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: Study of population redistribution 3
In: The economic history review, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 225
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The journal of economic history, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 2-35
ISSN: 1471-6372
Local governments played a notable and somewhat neglected part in the American movement for internal improvements. Their activities in aid of canals and railroads varied greatly in scale and method and in the scope of planning involved. They ran the gamut from the far-flung projects of great commercial cities striving for the dominance of the trade of vast areas to the donations of obscure rural townships trying only to make sure that the promised railroad should pass through their village rather than the adjacent crossroads. Among the greater cities, none played a more notable role than Baltimore in the promotion of internal improvements. Its total of railroad subscriptions, loans, and bond endorsements was about twenty million dollars—a figure of municipal contribution only exceeded by Cincinnati's investment in a city-owned railroad. Baltimore was in the field of internal improvements well before Cincinnati and remained in it long after such early rivals as Philadelphia had withdrawn. Baltimore's first investment in the Baltimore and Ohio was audaorized in 1827, and its last loan to the Western Maryland was made in 1886. It continued to vote stock and to appoint public directors to the board of railroad corporations until it sold its interest in the Baltimore and Ohio in 1890 and in the Western Maryland in 1902.
In: Study of Population Redistribution 1
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 309
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: The Economic Journal, Band 32, Heft 126, S. 222
In: The economic history review, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 570
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 40
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 110