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Overcoming Niagara : canals, commerce, and tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region, 1792-1837 /
- Title
- Overcoming Niagara : canals, commerce, and tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region, 1792-1837 / Janet Dorothy Larkin.
- Author
- Larkin, Janet Dorothy,
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 266 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- Borderlands > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History
- Borderlands > Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) > History
- Borderlands
- Canals > Niagara Frontier > History > 18th century
- Canals > Niagara Frontier > History > 19th century
- Canals
- Commerce
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) > History
- Great Lakes Region
- New York (State) > Erie Canal
- New York (State) > Niagara Frontier
- New York (State) > Oswego Canal
- Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) > Description and travel
- Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) > History
- North America > Niagara Falls Region
- Ontario > Welland Canal
- Oswego Canal (N.Y.) > History
- Tourism > Niagara Frontier > History
- Tourism
- Travel
- Welland Canal (Ont.) > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The "Greatest display in nature" : the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region before the War of 1812 -- "As irresistible as the 'cataract of Niagara'" : the Erie Canal and the promises of the North American canal age -- "A salutary and desirable competition" : New York State influence in the building of the first Welland Canal -- The Oswego Canal : "One of the great travelling and commercial thoroughfares" -- "The great wonder of the canal."
- ISBN
- 9781438468235
- 1438468237
- LCCN
- 2017008959
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library