Entrée principale:

Shaw, Ronald E.

Titre et auteur:

Erie water west : a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 / Ronald E. Shaw.

Publication:

Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1990, ©1966.

Description:

xii, 449 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm

Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: Lexington, Ky. : University of Kentucky Press, ©1966.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The prophecy: Up the Mohawk to the west ; Jesse Hawley's "Genesee Canal" ; Survey and report ; From prophecy into law -- The grand canal: Forty feet wide and four feet deep ; The politics of construction ; The Canal comes west ; Black Rock or Buffalo ; The politics of removal ; The wedding of the waters -- On Erie water: Packets, freighters, and canallers ; Pure and wholesome water ; The state runs a canal ; The trade of the "teeming west" ; "Commerce is king" -- Politics and nationalism: The "forty million debt," 1835-1841 ; The Democratic stop policy, 1842-1846 ; The Canal goes on, 1847-1854 ; A canal for the nation.
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ISBN:

(alk. paper)
0813111719
0813108012 (alk. paper ; pbk.)
9780813108018 (alk. paper ; pbk.)

Sujet:

Erie Canal (N.Y.) History.
Erie Canal (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (State) Erie Canal.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 53283
Cote: ID:90-B2033
Statut: Disponible