Download E-books River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850 by Kim M. Gruenwald (2002-09-10) PDF

By Kim M. Gruenwald

"Gruenwald's ebook will make a similar contribution to old wisdom of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier service provider did for our realizing of the mercantile Midwest within the mid-nineteenth century.... a finely crafted narrative that shall we the reader remember the fact that the Ohio River continuously served extra as an artery, that's, a river of trade, than a dividing line or boundary." -- R. Douglas harm, writer of The Ohio FrontierRiver of company explores the function the Ohio performed in the lives of 3 generations of settlers from the river's headwaters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky. half One examines the options of colonists who coveted lands "Across the Mountains" as house to be conquered. half strains the emergence of a brand new zone in a valley reworked through trade because the Ohio River turned the artery of circulate in "the Western Country." half 3 finds how kin among acquaintances around the river cooled as citizens of "the Buckeye nation" got here to treat the river because the boundary among North and South. From 1790 to 1830, the Ohio River nurtured a neighborhood identification as american citizens strove to create an empire according to the binds of trade in frontier Ohio and Kentucky, and the backcountry of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The booklet experiences the neighborhood, nearby, and nationwide connections created through retailers by means of tracing the company global of the Woodbridge family members of Marietta, Ohio. simply as local advertisement matters gave option to statewide business matters, and as man made transportation networks resembling canals and railroads supplanted the river, did these dwelling to the north outline the Ohio as a boundary.