The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project

An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth

Claire Puccia Parham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2016
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-1073-1 (ISBN)

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Reveals the human side of the St Lawrence Seaway and Power Project in the words of its engineers, labourers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, Claire Puccia Parham provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women who accompanied them.

In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women who accompanied them. On the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the power dam and waterway, this book is a fitting tribute to the hard work and dedication of the project’s 22,000 workers.

Claire Puccia Parham is an instructor in the History Department at Siena College in Loudonville, New York. She is the author of From Great Wilderness to Seaway Towns: A Comparative History of Cornwall, Ontario, and Massena, New York, 1784–2001.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2016
Zusatzinfo	40 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	0-8156-1073-4 / 0815610734
ISBN-13	978-0-8156-1073-1 / 9780815610731
Zustand	Neuware