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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 92



1. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, “Transportation in the Ante-Bellum South: An Economic Analysis,” Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 1905): 434-51.


Analysis of economic development in the South before the Civil War, which was beset by the problem of developing a means of transportation that could keep up with the rapid expansion of economic growth westward. The arrival of railroads provided a solution.