2 options
Wedding of the waters : the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation Peter L. Bernstein
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HE 396 .E6 B47 2005
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Peter L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Erie Canal (N.Y.).
- United States--Economic conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 448 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
- Summary:
- "The account of how the Erie Canal forever changed the course of American history"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Smooth sailing
- Hudson's wrong turn
- Washington's pivot
- Canal maniacs
- "A canal to the moon"
- The sublime spectacle
- The extravagant proposal
- The expedition
- War and peace
- The shower of gold
- Digging the ditch
- Boom, bust, bonds
- Rude invective
- Unwearied zeal
- A noble work
- The pageant of power
- The wedding of the waters
- No charge for births
- The prodigious artery
- The granary of the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-423) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393052338 (hardcover)
- 9780393052336 (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 56614386
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.