Bond of union : building the Erie Canal and the American empire / Gerard Koeppel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canals--New York (State)--History.

Canals.

Erie Canal (N.Y.)--History.

Erie Canal (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A landmark new history of the making of the Erie Canal—America's first “superhighway" to the West—and the extraordinary consequences of its completion.

Contents:

An American ambition

The wilderness years (10,000 bc-1805)

"The effusions of a maniac" (1807-1809)

Apollo rising

Erie rise and fall (1810-1815)

The cause uncrowned

"The most gigantic undertaking"

Laying the groundwork

Securing the middle (1818-1820)

Eastward ho! (1819-1823)

How the West was won (1819-1825)

Ten days that shook New York

The shadowy remembrance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-439) and index.

ISBN:

0-7867-4544-4

OCLC:

646794046