Book ID: CBB000954267

Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America (2009)

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McGreevy, Patrick (Author)


State University of New York Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xiv + 309 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Melosi, Martin V.
Richard J. Byrom
Camden Burd
Jean-François Fava-Verde
Brian Phillips Murphy
Woods, Terry K.
Journals
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Technology and Culture
Social Science History
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
Railway & Canal Historical Society
Pen & Sword Transport
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
The MIT Press
Concepts
Technology
Civil engineering
Canals
Technology and society
Erie Canal (New York)
Marine engineering; canals; waterways
People
Sir William Fairbairn
Clark, William Tierney
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
Renaissance
Places
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Lancaster (England)
England
Ohio (U.S.)
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