Author: United States
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors from August 11, 1790, to March 4, 1913
Author: United States
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Office of the Chief of Engineers of the Army
Author: William Stull Holt
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army (including the Reports of the Isthmian Canal Commissions, (1899-1914) 1866-1912 ...
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1912-1916 ... V. IX-XI, Series Four, V. 1-3
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Classified Catalogue
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Savannah's Midnight Hour
Author: Lisa L. Denmark
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Savannah’s Midnight Hour argues that Savannah’s development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in which the politics of slavery, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction dominate the analysis of economic development. Denmark shows us that Savannah’s fiscal experience in the antebellum and postbellum years, while exhibiting some distinctively southern characteristics, also echoes a larger national experience. Her broad account of municipal decision making about improvement investment throughout the nineteenth century offers a more nuanced look at the continuity and change of policies in this pivotal urban setting. Beginning in the 1820s and continuing into the 1870s, Savannah’s resourceful government leaders acted enthusiastically and aggressively to establish transportation links and to construct a modern infrastructure. Taking the long view of financial risk, the city/municipal government invested in an ever-widening array of projects—canals, railroads, harbor improvement, drainage— because of their potential to stimulate the city’s economy. Denmark examines how this ideology of over-optimistic risk-taking, rooted firmly in the antebellum period, persisted after the Civil War and eventually brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. The struggle to strike the right balance between using public policy and public money to promote economic development while, at the same time, trying to maintain a sound fiscal footing is a question governments still struggle with today.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Savannah’s Midnight Hour argues that Savannah’s development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in which the politics of slavery, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction dominate the analysis of economic development. Denmark shows us that Savannah’s fiscal experience in the antebellum and postbellum years, while exhibiting some distinctively southern characteristics, also echoes a larger national experience. Her broad account of municipal decision making about improvement investment throughout the nineteenth century offers a more nuanced look at the continuity and change of policies in this pivotal urban setting. Beginning in the 1820s and continuing into the 1870s, Savannah’s resourceful government leaders acted enthusiastically and aggressively to establish transportation links and to construct a modern infrastructure. Taking the long view of financial risk, the city/municipal government invested in an ever-widening array of projects—canals, railroads, harbor improvement, drainage— because of their potential to stimulate the city’s economy. Denmark examines how this ideology of over-optimistic risk-taking, rooted firmly in the antebellum period, persisted after the Civil War and eventually brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. The struggle to strike the right balance between using public policy and public money to promote economic development while, at the same time, trying to maintain a sound fiscal footing is a question governments still struggle with today.
Report of the Chief of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2062
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2062
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
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