Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St Louis

by Jeffrey S. Adler

Book Overview

By the early 1850s, St Louis was one of the fastest-growing cities in America. In this book, Jeffrey Adler analyzes the forces that determined the role of western cities in the national economy. He devotes particular attention to the ways in which Yankee merchants forged ties that linked St Louis to the New York and Boston markets. Northeastern businessmen fuelled the ascent of St Louis and made the city a Yankee colony in the West. During the mid-1850s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522358
• ISBN13: 9780521522359
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"