Book ID: CBB000045746

Planning the French canals: Bureaucracy, politics, and enterprise under the Restoration (1994)

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Geiger, Reed G. (Author)


University of Delaware Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: 338 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Rosenthal, J.-L. (1995) Review of "Planning the French canals: Bureaucracy, politics, and enterprise under the Restoration". Journal of Economic History (pp. 933-34). unapi

Review Locke, R.R. (1996) Review of "Planning the French canals: Bureaucracy, politics, and enterprise under the Restoration". American Historical Review (p. 507). unapi

Review Shallat, T. (1996) Review of "Planning the French canals: Bureaucracy, politics, and enterprise under the Restoration". Technology and Culture (pp. 181-83). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mukerji, Chandra
Woods, Terry K.
Tuma, Elias H.
Snytko, V. A.
Shirokova, V. A.
Sheriff, Carol
Journals
The Journal of Transport History
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of Georgia Press
Louisiana State University Press
Loubatiìeres
Le Monnier
Kent State University Press
Concepts
Marine engineering; canals; waterways
Technology
Canals
Erie Canal (New York)
Engineering
Civil engineering
People
Riquet de Bonrepos, Pierre-Paul
Watt, James
Stephenson, Robert
Shreve, Henry Miller
Negrelli, Luigi
Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie de, vicomte
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
France
United States
Suez Canal (Egypt)
Ohio (U.S.)
Wales
Central America
Institutions
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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