Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Chief Engineer, Relative to the Application of the Appropriation for Removing Obstructions to the Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of War
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Chief Engineer, Relative to the Application of the Appropriation for Removing Obstructions to the Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. January 5, 1826. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Historical Evidence of Ohio River Bank Erosion
Author: The Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of War
Author: Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Author: Robert H. GudmestadPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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