TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruenwald,Kim M.
TI  - River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850
SN  - 9780253109378
AV  - BL2525 -- .D53 2003eb 
U1  - 277.3/0825/091732 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Cities and towns -- United States -- Religion
KW  - United States -- Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS -- 1 Claiming Space -- 2 Planting a Place -- PART II: THE WESTERN COUNTRY -- 3 Creating a Subregional Hub -- 4 Connecting East and West -- 5 The Dimensions of the Riverine Economy -- 6 The Western Country -- PART III: THE BUCKEYE STATE -- 7 Ohio's Economy Transformed -- 8 A New Sense of Place -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - "Gruenwald's book will make the same contribution to historical                knowledge of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier Merchant did for our                understanding of the mercantile Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century.... a finely                crafted narrative that lets the reader understand that the Ohio River always served                more as an artery, that is, a river of commerce, than a dividing line or                boundary." -- R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Ohio                FrontierRiver of Enterprise explores the role the Ohio played in                the lives of three generations of settlers from the river's headwaters at                Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky. Part One examines                the strategies of colonists who coveted lands "Across the Mountains" as                space to be conquered. Part Two traces the emergence of a new region in a valley                transformed by commerce as the Ohio River became the artery of movement in "the                Western Country." Part Three reveals how relations between neighbors across the                river cooled as residents of "the Buckeye State" came to regard the river                as the boundary between North and South. From 1790 to 1830, the Ohio River nurtured                a regional identity as Americans strove to create an empire based on the ties of                commerce in frontier Ohio and Kentucky, and the backcountry of Pennsylvania and                Virginia. The book studies the local, regional, and national                connections created by merchants by tracing the business world of the Woodbridge                family of Marietta, Ohio. Only as regional commercial concerns gave way to statewide                industrial concerns, and as artificial transportation networks; such as canals and                railroads supplanted the river, did those living to the north define the Ohio as a                boundary
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