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Erie water west: a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854

Ronald E. Shaw 1990 © University Press of Kentucky
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780813117119 (hardcover)
  • 9780813108018 (paper)
  • 9780813143484 (ebook)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • I. The Prophecy
    • 1. Up the Mowhawk to the West (page 3)
    • 2. Jesse Hawley's "Genesee Canal" (page 22)
    • 3. Survey and Report (page 38)
    • 4. From Prophecy into Law (page 56)
  • II. The Grand Canal
    • 5. Forty Feet Wide and Four Feet Deep (page 83)
    • 6. The Politics of Construction (page 101)
    • 7. The Canal Comes West (page 123)
    • 8. Black Rock or Buffalo (page 140)
    • 9. The Politics of Removal (page 164)
    • 10. The Wedding of the Waters (page 181)
  • III. On Erie Water
    • 11. Packets, Freighters, and Canallers (page 197)
    • 12. Pure and Wholesome Water (page 219)
    • 13. The State Runs a Canal (page 236)
    • 14. The Trade of the "Teeming West" (page 260)
    • 15. "Commerce is King" (page 279)
  • IV. Politics and Nationalism
    • 16. The "Forty Million Debt," 1835-1841 (page 303)
    • 17. The Democratic Stop Policy, 1842-1846 (page 330)
    • 18. The Canal Goes On, 1847-1854 (page 361)
    • 19. A Canal for the Nation (page 397)
  • Essay on Bibliography (page 419)
  • Index (page 433)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 74.5 (1969): 1715 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28196906%2974%3A5%3C1715%3AEWWAHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
JEH 27.3 (1967): 424-425 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28196709%2927%3A3%3C424%3AEWWAHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
JAH 53.3 (1966): 596-597 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28196612%2953%3A3%3C596%3AEWWAHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
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