Harry N. Scheiber is the Riesenfeld Chair Professor of Law and History in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Among his previous publications are The State and Freedom of Contract; Inter-Allied Conflicts and the Origins of Modern Ocean Law; American Law and the Constitutional Order; and some 150 articles in journals of history, law, economics, and political science.

"Ohio Canal Era is a classic that ought to be read in every generation. It's wonderful to have it back in print." "The classic study of canal development in the Old Northwest." (author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West) "A monumental and still definitive study of law and the economy in an American state." "This is a thoughtful, impressively well-informed, and perceptive study. It presents a careful, balanced, judicious, and non-doctrinaire analysis and discussion of the numerous elements in the economic growth and change in Ohio. It will be welcomed by all students of nineteenth-century United States history, and it ought to be required reading for economists and others who talk glibly about economic development as if it were a simple process." (Pacific Northwest Quarterly)

Harry N. Scheiber is the Riesenfeld Chair Professor of Law and History in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Among his previous publications are The State and Freedom of Contract; Inter-Allied Conflicts and the Origins of Modern Ocean Law; American Law and the Constitutional Order; and some 150 articles in journals of history, law, economics, and political science.

"Ohio Canal Era is a classic that ought to be read in every generation. It's wonderful to have it back in print." "The classic study of canal development in the Old Northwest." (author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West) "A monumental and still definitive study of law and the economy in an American state." "This is a thoughtful, impressively well-informed, and perceptive study. It presents a careful, balanced, judicious, and non-doctrinaire analysis and discussion of the numerous elements in the economic growth and change in Ohio. It will be welcomed by all students of nineteenth-century United States history, and it ought to be required reading for economists and others who talk glibly about economic development as if it were a simple process." (Pacific Northwest Quarterly)

Harry N. Scheiber is the Riesenfeld Chair Professor of Law and History in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Among his previous publications are The State and Freedom of Contract; Inter-Allied Conflicts and the Origins of Modern Ocean Law; American Law and the Constitutional Order; and some 150 articles in journals of history, law, economics, and political science.

"Ohio Canal Era is a classic that ought to be read in every generation. It's wonderful to have it back in print." "The classic study of canal development in the Old Northwest." (author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West) "A monumental and still definitive study of law and the economy in an American state." "This is a thoughtful, impressively well-informed, and perceptive study. It presents a careful, balanced, judicious, and non-doctrinaire analysis and discussion of the numerous elements in the economic growth and change in Ohio. It will be welcomed by all students of nineteenth-century United States history, and it ought to be required reading for economists and others who talk glibly about economic development as if it were a simple process." (Pacific Northwest Quarterly)