Wedding of the waters
the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation
- ISBN: 9780393327953
- Editorial: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 448
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Rústica
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The building of the Erie Canal in the first quarter of the nineteenth century is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington and Jefferson but also a huge platoon of Irish diggers as well as the canal's first travellers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanisation, economic growth and globalisation can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.