Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486278636
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development -- from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486278636
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development -- from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486278636
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development -- from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
The Tennessee River Navigation System
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Tennessee River Navigation System is one of the planned series of special technical reports recording the experience of TVA in planning and carrying out one of its major program. The report presents a comprehensive picture of the river's development for navigation including commercial, industrial, and recreational uses. The discussions are preceded by a historical outline tracing the use of the Tennessee River and its tributaries for navigation from the days of DeSoto to the inception of the TVA; they conclude with a summary of navigation investment costs. Appendixes provide supplemental data.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Tennessee River Navigation System is one of the planned series of special technical reports recording the experience of TVA in planning and carrying out one of its major program. The report presents a comprehensive picture of the river's development for navigation including commercial, industrial, and recreational uses. The discussions are preceded by a historical outline tracing the use of the Tennessee River and its tributaries for navigation from the days of DeSoto to the inception of the TVA; they conclude with a summary of navigation investment costs. Appendixes provide supplemental data.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2284
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2284
Book Description
River Traffic and Industrial Growth
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Transportation of Agricultural Products in the United States, 1920-June 1939
Author: Esther Marie Colvin
Publisher:
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Category : Farm produce
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Farm produce
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Technical Report
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The First American Frontier
Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Agricultural Economics Bibliography
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Freedom by the Sword
Author: William A. Dobak
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160866968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains; and still others took part in major operations like the siege of Petersburg and the battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments garrisoned the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. This book tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160866968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains; and still others took part in major operations like the siege of Petersburg and the battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments garrisoned the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. This book tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service.