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The Steam Engine and U.S. Urban Growth During the Late Nineteenth Century

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  • Burton A. Abrams

    () (Department of Economics,University of Delaware)

  • Jing Li
  • James G. Mulligan

    () (Department of Economics,University of Delaware)

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There is an on-going debate concerning the role that the steam engine played in fueling urban growth in the U.S. during the second half of the nineteenth century. While a consensus has been building that steam power played little or no role in affecting urban growth, we find evidence to the contrary by using previously untapped county-level data on steam power in manufacturing.

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Paper provided by University of Delaware, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 09-06.

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Date of creation: 2009
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