Middlemen in Towns and Small Cities of the Midwest: 1860-1880

中西部城镇和小城市的中间商：1860-1880

• 批准号: 9632063
• 负责人: Mary Hansen
• 金额: $ 5.84万
• 依托单位: Knox College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-11-01 至 1999-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9632063&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Middlemen; Towns; Small; Cities; Midwest

This project will produce the first sample of the nineteenth century service sector. It will produce a data set containing economic and demographic data on middlemen who operated businesses in 89 counties in 10 North Central States during the 1860-1880 period. Names of proprietors and locations of businesses will be collected from statewide business directories and linked to the manuscript censuses of population, agriculture, and manufacturing. Completion of the project will provide quantitative and consistent evidence on changes in the marketing sector of the Midwest during the period when the practice of standard grading and the use forward contracts on grain were spreading. The data promise to add a new dimension to our understanding of the economic development of the Midwest and offer long term research opportunities to scholars in economics, history and other social sciences.

这个项目将产生19世纪服务业的第一个样本。它将产生一个数据集，其中包含1860-1880年期间在10个中北部州的89个县经营业务的中间商的经济和人口数据。业主的名字和企业的位置将从全州的企业名录中收集，并与人口、农业和制造业的人口普查手稿相关联。该项目的完成将为中西部市场营销部门在标准分级和使用谷物远期合同推广期间的变化提供定量和一致的证据。这些数据有望为我们对中西部经济发展的理解增加一个新的维度，并为经济学、历史学和其他社会科学领域的学者提供长期研究的机会。