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9780393327953

Wedding Of The Waters Pa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393327953

  • ISBN10:

    0393327957

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-02-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction against the larger tableau of America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Examining the social, political, and economic ramifications of this mammoth project, Bernstein demonstrates how the canal's creation helped prevent the dismemberment of the American empire and knit the sinews of the American industrial revolution. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington, Jefferson, van Buren, and the architect's most powerful champion, Governor DeWitt Clinton, but also a huge platoon of Irish diggers as well as the canal's first travelers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history. 20 line drawings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. 15
Introduction: "Does It Not Seem Like Magic?"p. 21
The Visionaries
Smooth Sailingp. 31
Hudson's Wrong Turnp. 46
Washington's Pivotp. 61
Canal Maniacsp. 77
"A Canal to the Moon"p. 89
The Action Begins
The Sublime Spectaclep. 109
The Extravagant Proposalp. 126
The Expeditionp. 142
War and Peacep. 160
The Shower of Goldp. 180
The Creation
Digging the Ditchp. 203
Boom, Bust, Bondsp. 220
Rude Invectivep. 237
Unwearied Zealp. 258
The Stupendous Path
A Noble Workp. 279
The Pageant of Powerp. 293
The Wedding of the Watersp. 308
After the Wedding
No Charge for Birthsp. 325
The Prodigious Arteryp. 343
The Granary of the Worldp. 364
Epiloguep. 379
Notesp. 383
Bibliographyp. 413
Illustration Creditsp. 424
Indexp. 425
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