Books : Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Dover Books on Transportation, Maritime)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 386.30978
EAN num: 9780486278636
ISBN number: 0486278638
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 704
Printing Date: January 07, 1994
Publishing house: Dover Publications
Sale Popularity Level: 771580
Studio: Dover Publications
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Definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.
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I was hoping for a least a modicum of colour or human interest, or some detail of what the personal dimension of steamboat travel must have been. Regretably, there is quite alot of information about boilers, water displacement, rates for moving merchandise, and every other dry statistic to bore a non-specialist. The sub-title says it all, and I should have paid attention.
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I highly recommend this book. I was assigned Steamboats on the Western Rivers in a graduate level course at University of Missouri-St. Louis about ten years ago. I'm now re-reading it for the second time...it is just that good!
I was glad to see it reprinted in paperback. When I very first read it I had to get it through inter-library loan from Rolla, Missouri...there were no copies in St. Louis or Chicago! This new printing is most welcome.
If you have an interest in Westward Expansion, the Civil War, or the growth of technology then this book should be on your "must read" list.
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