The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862, Paperback - Carol Sheriff

Reducere. The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveal...

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

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Reducere. DescriptionLife working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. KeeneThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucr...

Reducere. In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal a...

Reducere. In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled...

Reducere. In 1972 the banks of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois played host to one of the most disorganized music festivals in history. The Bull Isl...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In 1831, a 26-year old French foreign service offic...

The River ThamesIncluding the River Wey, Basingstoke Canal and Kennet and Avon CanalPublisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson LtdAuthor(s): Chris Co...

Reducere. The Thirty-ninth Man is a historical novel culminating with the mass execution of thirty-eight men--the largest mass execution in the history of th...

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Reducere. This book remains the definitive history of the deepest of all American gorges.

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired b...

Reducere. Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Carole laFavorNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover type: Pa...

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen in...

Reducere. A nurse shares insightful essays as a young child to becoming a nurse and Mother of a special needs child. I am a passionate registered nurse for o...

Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

DescriptionGrounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives...

Reducere. How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by F lix Gonz lez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting ...

Reducere. The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of F...

Reducere. The Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life's Promise is the healing vision of a woman who is a scholar in the fields of adult and ...

Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fi...

"Final Warning" is the definitive resource on the nature and origins of the movement towards a one-world government. A wealth of in-depth research ...

Reducere. What does the epistle to the Hebrews mean when it calls Jesus Son? Is Son a title that denotes his eternal existence as one person of the Trinity? ...

Reducere. Denis Diderot, The Paradox of the actor Diderot's "thesis is that a great actor must not be sensitive; or, in other words, that he must not feel th...

Reducere. DescriptionLouisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North ...

Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human a...

Argues that the state in America is rooted in the country's colonial experience and analyses the evidence for this by reviewing governance at all l...

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to...

Exploration of the divine sonship of Jesus in the New Testament letter to the Hebrews

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don SheweyPornography has played a special role in the sex lives of gay men. It has taught us what desire between two men l...

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The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Rava...

Reducere. In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might ...

Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Myron MagnetIllustrati...

Reducere. Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. This book explores the p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

Reducere. Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but...

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Fred M. WalkerNumber of pages: 304Collection: Hakluyt Society, Third SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best--mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling...

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Sheriff in the Saddleby Delores Fossen Will she take down her ex?Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Cindi MyersNumber of pages: 448Publi...

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Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...