Troubled waters : steamboat disasters, river improvements, and American public policy, 1821-1860 /
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a v...
| Основен автор: | Paskoff, Paul F. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=257627 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Troubled waters. |
| Резюме: |
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. As such, improving the safety and efficiency of the nation's waterways was consistently at the forefront of political and economic discussions of the day. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780807133873 0807133876 |