Author: Charles Clinton WeaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Internal Improvements in North Carolina Previous to 1860
Author: Charles Clinton WeaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Internal Improvements in North Carolina Previous to 1860
Author: Charles Clinton WeaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Internal Improvement
Author: John Lauritz LarsonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918
Author: William N. Still Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0865264953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTH
Author: Charles Clinton 1875-1946 WeaverPublisher:
ISBN: 9781363926961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Troubled Waters
Author: Paul F. PaskoffPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807133876
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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 variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. As such, improving the safety and efficiency of the nation's waterways was consistently at the forefront of political and economic discussions of the day.
The North Carolina Historical Review
Author: Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society
Author: Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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