The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project - Claire Puccia Parham

The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project

An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
Buch | Softcover
392 Seiten
2016
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-1073-1 (ISBN)
27,35 inkl. MwSt
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
Zusatzinfo 40 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
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
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