Author: Paul F. Paskoff
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807133876
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Troubled Waters
Author: Paul F. Paskoff
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807133876
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807133876
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Ohio's Western Reserve, the Story of Its Place Names
Author: David Hailstone
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Western Reserve
Author: Harlan Hatcher
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Category : Western Reserve
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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Category : Western Reserve
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Pictorial History of the Western Reserve 1796-1860
Author: Margaret Manor Butler
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Category : Western Reserve
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
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Category : Western Reserve
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Bulletin
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Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Ohio's Western Reserve
Author: Harry Forrest Lupold
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873383721
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources--many now out of print and difficult to locate--to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the "New Connecticut" region of Ohio. Four divisions in the book logically organize the social, economic, and political study of the region: "Conquest and Settlement: Native Americans to New Englanders"; "The Pioneers: Town Building, Society, and the Emergence of an Economy"; "The Transition Years; Slavery, the Civil War, and the Reserve in National Politics, 1850-1880"; and "A Changing Legacy: Industrialism, Ethnicity, and the Age of Reform." The volume ends in 1920, when the unique features of the Western Reserve of Ohio--the architecture, the landmarks, the New England lifestyle--had largely faded into American history as a result of industrialism, urbanism, and the pressure of a changing ethnic base.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873383721
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources--many now out of print and difficult to locate--to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the "New Connecticut" region of Ohio. Four divisions in the book logically organize the social, economic, and political study of the region: "Conquest and Settlement: Native Americans to New Englanders"; "The Pioneers: Town Building, Society, and the Emergence of an Economy"; "The Transition Years; Slavery, the Civil War, and the Reserve in National Politics, 1850-1880"; and "A Changing Legacy: Industrialism, Ethnicity, and the Age of Reform." The volume ends in 1920, when the unique features of the Western Reserve of Ohio--the architecture, the landmarks, the New England lifestyle--had largely faded into American history as a result of industrialism, urbanism, and the pressure of a changing ethnic base.
Ohio Valley Folk Publications
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Hudson's Heritage
Author: Grace Goulder Izant
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Grace Goulder Izant spent the last six decades of her long and productive life in Hudson, Ohio, and this, her final book, was the one that lay closest to her heart. Bringing to it her knowledge as a historian of Ohio, she lifts the story beyond the limitations of local history and makes it illuminate an entire region and time. Illustrated with numerous historical photographs and drawings from her private collection, this edition preserves the enduring quality and historical heritage of this quaint village.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Grace Goulder Izant spent the last six decades of her long and productive life in Hudson, Ohio, and this, her final book, was the one that lay closest to her heart. Bringing to it her knowledge as a historian of Ohio, she lifts the story beyond the limitations of local history and makes it illuminate an entire region and time. Illustrated with numerous historical photographs and drawings from her private collection, this edition preserves the enduring quality and historical heritage of this quaint village.
Word Study
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Harvard Guide to American History
Author: Frank Freidel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674375604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674375604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.