Troubled Waters : Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860 /
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a v...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |