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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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American and British Claims Arbitration
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Pricing the Land
Author: Scott W. Anderson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501775707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Pricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of the war (the New Military Tract) and within the Cayuga Reservation created by treaty in 1789, comprising a hundred square miles of land on both shores of the northern end of Cayuga Lake. He considers several factors that affected the value of this land: the scarcity of money in early America; the role that Alexander Hamilton's assumption policy played in encouraging debt speculation; the sale of huge tracts by New York and Massachusetts to investment syndicates; and the struggles of settlers across the New York frontier to escape debt, bondage, and poverty. Anderson, who served as an expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials of 1999 to 2001 that awarded the Cayuga Nation $247.9 million in compensation and damages (a judgment overturned in 2005), developed new methodological tools for determining a better estimate of the value of this land. In Pricing the Land, he concludes that the only accurate measure of worth lay in the settlers' ability to pay their rents or debts, which was only possible once the Market Revolution reached central New York. As a result of his historical recovery, Anderson finds that the Cayuga Nation might have been entitled to twice the amount they were awarded in their lawsuit.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501775707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Pricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of the war (the New Military Tract) and within the Cayuga Reservation created by treaty in 1789, comprising a hundred square miles of land on both shores of the northern end of Cayuga Lake. He considers several factors that affected the value of this land: the scarcity of money in early America; the role that Alexander Hamilton's assumption policy played in encouraging debt speculation; the sale of huge tracts by New York and Massachusetts to investment syndicates; and the struggles of settlers across the New York frontier to escape debt, bondage, and poverty. Anderson, who served as an expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials of 1999 to 2001 that awarded the Cayuga Nation $247.9 million in compensation and damages (a judgment overturned in 2005), developed new methodological tools for determining a better estimate of the value of this land. In Pricing the Land, he concludes that the only accurate measure of worth lay in the settlers' ability to pay their rents or debts, which was only possible once the Market Revolution reached central New York. As a result of his historical recovery, Anderson finds that the Cayuga Nation might have been entitled to twice the amount they were awarded in their lawsuit.
Auburn, New York
Author: Scott W. Anderson
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815653301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Auburn, New York, is home to some of the key figures in our nation’s history. Both William Seward and Harriet Tubman lived in Auburn, as did Martha Coffin Wright, a pioneering figure in the struggle for women’s suffrage. Auburn’s significance to American life, however, goes beyond its role in political and social movements. The seeds of American development were sown and bore fruit in small urban centers like Auburn. The town’s early and rapid success secured its place as a cornerstone of the North American industrial core. Anderson chronicles the story of Auburn and its inhabitants, individuals with the skills and ingenuity to nurture and sustain an economy of unprecedented growth. He describes the early settlers who capitalized on the rich geographic advantages of the area: abundant water power and access to transportation routes. The entrepreneurs and capital that Auburn attracted built it into a thriving community, one that became a center of invention, manufacturing, and finance in the mid-nineteenth century. Just as the high profits and rapid accumulation of wealth allowed the community to prosper and grow, these factors also initiated its decline. Anderson traces Auburn’s momentous rise and gradual decline, illustrating American capitalism in its rawest form as it played out in small towns across the nation.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815653301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Auburn, New York, is home to some of the key figures in our nation’s history. Both William Seward and Harriet Tubman lived in Auburn, as did Martha Coffin Wright, a pioneering figure in the struggle for women’s suffrage. Auburn’s significance to American life, however, goes beyond its role in political and social movements. The seeds of American development were sown and bore fruit in small urban centers like Auburn. The town’s early and rapid success secured its place as a cornerstone of the North American industrial core. Anderson chronicles the story of Auburn and its inhabitants, individuals with the skills and ingenuity to nurture and sustain an economy of unprecedented growth. He describes the early settlers who capitalized on the rich geographic advantages of the area: abundant water power and access to transportation routes. The entrepreneurs and capital that Auburn attracted built it into a thriving community, one that became a center of invention, manufacturing, and finance in the mid-nineteenth century. Just as the high profits and rapid accumulation of wealth allowed the community to prosper and grow, these factors also initiated its decline. Anderson traces Auburn’s momentous rise and gradual decline, illustrating American capitalism in its rawest form as it played out in small towns across the nation.
Arbitration of Outstanding Pecuniary Claims Between Great Britain and the United States of America
Author: Great Britain
Publisher: King's Printer
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Category : Cayuga Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Publisher: King's Printer
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Category : Cayuga Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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The Paul Felix Warburg Union Catalog of Arbitration: Alphabetical index
Author: Katharine Seide
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Paul Felix Warburg Union Catalog of Arbitration: Subject index: commercial, international commercial, international public
Author: Katharine Seide
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Arbitration of Outstanding Pecuniary Claims Between Great Britain and the United States of America : the Cayuga Indians. Supplementary Annexes to the Reply of His Britannic Majesty's Government
Author: Great Britain
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Category : Cayuga Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Category : Cayuga Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Arbitration of Outstanding Pecuniary Claims Between Great Britain and the United States of America
Author: Great Britain
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Category : Cayuga Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Cayuga Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Arbitration of Outstanding Pecuniary Claims Between Great Britain and the United States of America
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Arbitration of Outstanding Pecuniary Claims Between Great Britain and the United States of America
Author: Great Britain
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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