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Erie water west: a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854

Shaw, Ronald E.

Year: 1990.

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky.

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Frontmatter

Preface

I. The Prophecy

1. Up the Mowhawk to the West

2. Jesse Hawley's "Genesee Canal"

3. Survey and Report

4. From Prophecy into Law

II. The Grand Canal

5. Forty Feet Wide and Four Feet Deep

6. The Politics of Construction

7. The Canal Comes West

8. Black Rock or Buffalo

9. The Politics of Removal

10. The Wedding of the Waters

III. On Erie Water

11. Packets, Freighters, and Canallers

12. Pure and Wholesome Water

13. The State Runs a Canal

14. The Trade of the "Teeming West"

15. "Commerce is King"

IV. Politics and Nationalism

16. The "Forty Million Debt," 1835-1841

17. The Democratic Stop Policy, 1842-1846

18. The Canal Goes On, 1847-1854

19. A Canal for the Nation

Essay on Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Erie water west : a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 Ronald E. Shaw.

Author:

Shaw, Ronald E

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Erie water west : a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 Ronald E. Shaw.
Shaw, Ronald E
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

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Subject Headings:

• Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- History

Notes:

• Reprint. Originally published: Lexington, Ky. : University of Kentucky Press, c1966.
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