Canals for a nation : the canal era in the United States, 1790-1860
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Canals for a nation : the canal era in the United States, 1790-1860
University Press of Kentucky, 1993, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index
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All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth.
Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
Table of Contents
Competing in the Global Arena: Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945
A Game of Political Ice Hockey: NATO Restrictions on East German Sport Travel in the Aftermath of the Berlin Wall
Steadfast Friendship and Brotherly Help: The Distinctive Soviet-East German Sport Relationship within the Socialist Bloc
Welcoming the Third World: Soviet Sports Diplomacy, Developing Nations, and the Olympic Game
Forging Africa-Caribbean Solidarity within the Commonwealth?: Sport and Diplomacy during the Anti-Apartheid Campaign
Peronism, International Sport, and Diplomacy
A More Flexible Domination: Franco-African Sport Diplomacy during Decolonization, 1945-196
The Cold War Games of a Colonial Latin American Nation: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966
"Our Way of Life Against Theirs": Ice Hockey and the Cold War
Fuzz Kids and Musclemen: The U.S.-Soviet Basketball Rivalry, 1958-1975
The White House Games: The Carter Administration's Efforts to Establish an Alternative to the Olympics
Reclaiming the Slopes: Sport and Tourism in Post-War Austria
Politics First, Competition Second: Sport and China's Foreign Diplomacy in the 1960s and 1970s
Reds, Revolutionaries, and Racists: Surfing, Travel, and Diplomacy in the Reagan Era
Fields of Dreams and Diplomacy
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