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9781438425276

Stairway to Empire

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  • ISBN13:

    9781438425276

  • ISBN10:

    1438425279

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-09
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

The story of the Erie Canal's completion and its place in the larger narrative of American modernity and progress.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Prologuep. xiii
Leaving Lockport: And Returning to the Canal's Beginningp. 1
Locating Lockport: The Canal and the Continent's Last Barrierp. 9
Cutting Lockport: Laborers, Citizens, and Five Years at the Mountain Ridgep. 41
Writing Lockport: A Dialogue on American Progressp. 105
Losing Lockport: Afterlife of the Mountain Ridge Conquestp. 171
Appendix: Mountain Ridge Contractorsp. 239
Notesp. 247
Indexp. 291
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