Wool-Growing and the Tariff : : A Study in the Economic History of the United States / / Chester Whitney Wright.

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• VerfasserIn: Wright, Chester Whitney,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1910
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Economic Studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. WOOL-GROWING BEFORE 1800 -- CHAPTER II. THE ADVENT OF THE MERINO, 1800-1815 -- CHAPTER III. WOOL-GROWING FINALLY ESTABLISHED ON A COMMERCIAL BASIS, 1815-1830 -- CHAPTER IV. THE PERIOD OF THE EAST'S SUPREMACY, 1830-1840 -- CHAPTER V. THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE WEST, 1840-1860 -- CHAPTER VI. THE CIVIL WAR EPISODE, 1860-1870 -- CHAPTER VII. THE RISE OF THE FAR WEST, 1870-90 -- CHAPTER VIII. FREE WOOL AND THE END OF THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT, 1890-1907 -- CHAPTER IX. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- STATISTICAL TABLES -- Number of Sheep and Amount of Wool Produced in the United States, 1840-1907 -- Number of Sheep in the United States, by States, 1840-1900 -- World's Wool Supply (Wool in the Grease), 1850-1907 -- Imports of Wool and Manufactures of Wool, 1822-1907 -- Imports of Raw Wool by Classes, 1867-1907 -- Average Annual Imports of Wool and Manufactures of Wool under each Tariff Act, 1821-1907 -- The Tariff Duties on Wool, 1789-1907 -- Prices of Ohio Fine, Medium, and Coarse Washed Clothing Fleece Wool, quarterly, 1824-1907. Also Gold Prices, 1862-1878 -- Prices of English Wools, 1790-1901 -- Prices of Colonial and River Plate Wool in the London Market, 1860-1902 -- Relative Average Annual Prices of Agricultural Products in the New York Market, 1825-1860 -- INDEX