A House Dividing
Subtitle: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Studies in Economic History and Policy)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521590235
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Economics; Virginia; Transportation; History - U.S.; United States - 19th Century; Railroads; U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860); Railroads - General; History: American; USA; Economic History; United States - Antebellum Era; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / 19th Century; Railroads--Pennsylvania--History--19th century; 19th century; Free enterprise; History; Pennsylvania
First sentence: The Rivanna was hardly the most impressive of Virginia's many rivers, nor the most commercially viable.