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Ohio Canal era: a case study of government and the economy, 1820-1861

A new paperback edition with a foreword by Lawrence M. Friedman Ohio Canal Era, a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre-Civil War transportation revolution. This edition contains a new foreword by scholar Lawrence M. Friedman, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, and a bibliographic note by the author. Professor Scheiber explores how Ohio-as a "public enterprise state," creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and control-led in the process of economic change before the

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