Author: edcurmudgeon

Land Speculation and Homesteading: Railroad-Style CD Privatist land speculation typified a city’s earliest years, and in western states private land speculation followed from how Congress

Western economic development into the twenties Cities in western states are not simply late-starting, warmed-over eastern cities. The recipe that made them is different, and

NOT SO DEEP IN THE HEART OF DIXIE: TEXAS Texan cities moseyed down a different trail than the post-Civil War Deep South, for various reasons:

THE SOUTHERN DIASPORA What broke the agricultural–export–workforce nexus and overwhelmed the planter Redeemer economy was the Southern Diaspora. It ranks with the Yankee Diaspora and

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY: THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE INDUSTRY What happened when the South developed its own manufacturing capacity through southern entrepreneurial activity? It

Southern Chamber-Style Economic Development The South relied upon chambers as its primary EDO. Southern chambers, however, did not mirror the post-1900 North’s Big Cities shift