Sketch Of The Internal Improvements Already Made By Pennsylvania; With Observations Upon Her Physical And Fiscal Means For Their Extension; Particular

By Samuel Breck

When canals, turnpikes and nascent railways were remaking America, Pennsylvania stood at a crossroads. Written in the early nineteenth century by statesman Samuel Breck, Sketch Of The Internal Improvements Already Made By Pennsylvania is a lucid historical economic treatise on how public works shape markets, cities and political destiny. Infrastructure meant power and survival. Tracing the state's ambitious canals and transportation development and the fiscal machinery behind them, Breck offers a penetrating Pennsylvania internal improvements study with particular attention to the future growth and prosperity of Philadelphia, making this a foundational Philadelphia urban history reference and a classic American infrastructure text. For historians of Philadelphia and students of early American infrastructure history, this volume is both narrative and evidence: a primary source economic history that reveals how geography, capital and legislation intertwined in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It speaks directly to readers interested in public works policy history and those using the period for economic history research, while remaining clear and vivid enough to engage the curious general reader drawn to the making of modern cities and states. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354440142
• ISBN13: 9789354440144
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"