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This colossal project : building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932 /
The story of the construction of a technological monument that remains a cornerstone of the North American economy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- PREFACE: A Canadian Conception: A Canadian Achievement
- INTRODUCTION: One of the Very Few Great Ship Canals of the World
- CHAPTER ONE: This Colossal Project
- CHAPTER TWO: Challenges Facing the Ship Canal's Builders "on the Ground"
- CHAPTER THREE: Vision, Skill, and Courage
- CHAPTER FOUR: Excavating the Prism
- CHAPTER FIVE: Creating the Lifts
- CHAPTER SIX: Managing the Water
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Building Bridges
- CHAPTER EIGHT: "Facing their own kaisers at home"
- CHAPTER NINE: Ameliorating Disaster and Squalor
- CHAPTER TEN: "A settled and established community"
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Parks and Publicity
- CHAPTER TWELVE: "Surpassing anything of the kind"
- APPENDICES
- I: Some Welland Ship Canal Construction Engineers
- II: Construction Sections and Contractors
- III: Construction Fatalities
- IV: The Welland By-Pass
- V: Associations, Commissions, Committees, and Treaties Affecting the Welland Canals
- VI: Martyrs of Progress (Poem)
- VII: Historiographical Essay
- VIII: Milestones in the Construction of the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932
- Glossary
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- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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