Table of Contents
“Follow the Sun” on “the Road to Our Horizons”
Welcome
America’s First Modern Economic Developer: George Washington
Washington Digs a Canal (Patowmack or Potomac) To Open Up the Trans-Appalachian West
Washington as Venture Capitalist: the Steamboat
Part I:
Early Republic Inherits the Colonial Past: Birth of American ED (1774-1800):
Colonial Migrations and Policy Systems, Revolutionary War and Articles of Confederation, the Formation of and Federalist Tribe in Power
Chapter 1: Articles of Confederation: Philadelphia AND Pennsylvania’s Impact
A. the Philadelphia Story: Pennsylvania a Radical Republic
Philadelphia Natives Got Restless, Sam/John Adams Maneuver the Declaration of Independence,
B. Colonial/Articles of Confederation: Robert Morris & Tom Paine as Economic Developers Create Our First National Bank
C. Colonial/Articles of Confederation: Banks Nation-building and Populism
Shays Rebellion: What is this Populism Thing and How Does it Relate to Economic Development?
Articles of Confederation: Think Tank for the Federalist Political Party
Introduction to ED-Related Political Culture and the Birth of American Populism
Federalists in Power: Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison Attempt Nation-Building and Fracture the Federalist Tribe
Constructing a Policy System from Scratch: Where to Locate the Nation’s Capital
Hamilton Launches His Economic System (Public Credit): Cracks Appear in the Federalist Tribe Consensus
The National Bank: the Federalist Consensus Shatters
Hamilton’s Manufactures and Jefferson’s Innovation (Patent Acts)
George Washington as City-Builder
Part II:
The New World That Is The Early Republic
Foreword: What is this Two Ships Thing? Political Culture and American Economic Development
the Union Expands: the Trans-Appalachia First Southwest States: Kentucky & Tennessee
Why States Differ? Tennessee/Kentucky Settlement & Statehood
Insights into What Lies Ahead
Pre-1800 Settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee: Dynamics & Realities Underlying Trans-Appalachian West
Settlement Begins and Virginia Takes Over Kentucky: Daniel Boone the Economic Developer
Nashville and Middle Tennessee: North Carolina Squats Over Tennessee–Name Change
Tennessee’s Land Grab, State of Franklin, and Pass the Buck to the Federal Government
Creating a State Policy System: Kentucky
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (G) Two Tidewater Policy System Diverge
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (H) Kentucky’s Drive to Statehood
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (I) Kentucky’s Two Constitutions
Vol 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 Statehood: Creating a State Policy System (J) Kentucky’s Initial Policy System
Creating a State Policy System: Tennessee
Creating a State Policy System Southwestern Territory: Blount’s Political Machine Fights Cherokee War
Tennessee Statehood- 1796 Constitution
Tennessee’s Initial Policy System
the Virginia Dynasty (1800-1828) Our First National Paradigm: “Internal Improvements” or Developmental Transportation Infrastructure Strategy, City/State-Building, and “Manufacturers”
Module 8: Janus-Headed MED: DTIS Connecting the Urban Dots
America’s First Primary EDO: the Public/Private State-Chartered Corporation
Overview of Pre-1837 Roads, Turnpikes, Canals, and Steamboat
Role of the National Government in pre-1828 Economic Development (Part I): the Tidewater Dynasty
DTIS, the Tidewater Democratic National Government, and Gallatin’s Plan
Role of the National Government in pre-1828 Economic Development (Part II): Henry Clay and the American System
Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal and the Take Off of New York City
The 1837-44 Panic, Gift/Loan Clauses, and Say Hello to Railroads This has to be split up
Railroad Case Studies
Birth of Mainstream ED (MED) and Community Development (CD) in North, 1789 to the Civil War
A. Mainstream ED and the Hegemonic Big City Economic Base
What is Mainstream Economic Development?
Hegemonic Industrial Big Cities: Birth of American State and Local MED
the Boston, Connecticut and Lowell Path to Manufacture
the Philadelphia and New York City Economic Base Develop
Baltimore and the Pennsylvania Mainline
Intro to Northern/Midwestern Big Cities & Tools of MED (Tax Abatement and Eminent Domain)
B. Northern Community Development, 1789 Thru the Civil War
Overview of Community Development Wings
Philadelphia (Quaker) First Wing Community Development and the Philadelphia Machine
Yankee-Puritan First Wing: the Brahmin Elect and Josiah Quincy
CD’s Second Wing and New York City CD???? Gotham
Unions in Early Republic: Their Failure as a Political Party Starts Here
the Massachusetts/New England Crawl
Part III:
Rise of the Cotton Belt and Deep South Political Culture
Southern Connect the Dots MED: There Ain’t No Dots–They’re Mountains
South Carolina Canals, Roads, and the Nation’s First Operating Railroad
South Carolina Tries to Be the “New York of the South”
Georgia Crosses the Appalachians and the Birth of Atlanta
the Midwest
The Rise of the Midwest and South Central States: Clash of Cultures (Pittsburgh and Lexington)
Inward MED City-Building East of the Mississippi Midwest (Cincinnati) and South Central States (Tennessee)
Ohio/Indiana/Michigan
Lincoln & Douglas as Economic Developers: Illinois Railroad MED
Illinois Central Railroad and the Birth of the MED Attraction Strategy
Chicago Creeps in on Anything But Little Cat’s Feet
Midwest Big Cities–Minnesota: Railroad-Led Immigrant Attraction
MED Railroad City-Building and the Railroad Corporation’s Business Plan
Antebellum Southern Economic Development
Let’s Start with Southern Political Cultures: Tidewater and the Scots-Irish
Let’s Start with Southern Political Cultures: The Barbadian-South Carolina Deep South
The Cotton Belt as the Deep South’s Economic Base; Why Agriculture? Why Cotton?
Cotton Belt Starts with Scots-Irish in Upland Counties of South Carolina
Deep South Political Culture Integrated Into South Carolina and Georgia State Policy Systems
Cotton’s Profit Life-Cycle: Tough Times for Cotton Leads to Upcountry Industrialization
Growth of the Cotton Belt: Historical, Economic and Geographic Overview
Alabama the First Notch in the Cotton “Belt”: Divergent Cultures of ED
Andrew Jackson
Post-Civil War Southern Economic Development
The War, Its Consequences, and the Reconstruction
The South’s Divided Economic Development Mind and the Redeemer Policy System
The Marshall Plan That Wasn’t: Compromise of 1877 and the Scott Plan–the South Get’s Shafted
The South Get’s “Railroaded”: Redeemer Gift and Loan Constitutional Clauses
Knoxville, Tennessee: a Scots-Irish Highland City
Atlanta, Chamber Politics to the 1890’s, the Southern Exposition Movement
Southern Black Economic Development Strategies: Booker T. Washington, the Atlanta Compromise, and W.E.B. Du Bois Is Not Happy
Charleston’s ED Copes with Populist Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman–and Mobile’s Challenge
The Rise of North Carolina’s Textile Industry
The Two Henry’s (Flager and Plant): City-Building in 19th Century Florida
Not So Deep In the Heart of Dixie: the Emergence of Texan Southwest ED
San Antonio, Houston, and the Early Development of Texan-Style ED
Our Conceptual Framework: the Chapter One Model
Eras (and Ages) of American Economic Development AND the Early Republic Era (1789-1870)
“Big City” Industrial Hegemonic Classical Era (1870-1975)
Transition Era (1975-2000) AND Intro to Contemporary Era (post-2000)
What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Political Culture and American State/Local ED
What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Quo Vadis MED, CD, and Political Cultures
What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Mainstream Economic Development (MED)
What is this TWO SHIPS Thing? Wings of Community Development (CD)
Mainstream ED (Janus-Headed MED): External and Inward MED
Early Republic/Antebellum External MED Strategies (Under Construction)
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