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