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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271046655
Author : Susan Q. Stranahan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0801851475
In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.
Author : Earl E. Brown
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786455966
Colonial pioneers began entering the logging and forestry industries in great numbers along the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains during the late 1700s and were soon producing more products than they could use. This book details how settlers used waterways to transport goods to coastal markets. Topics include the timeline of water craft construction; major figures in the development of early waterway transportation; types of goods transported; and occupational hazards from raging rapids to snowstorms. The book also features photographs, charts, and diary excerpts and an appendix detailing ark and raft construction. Twenty years of research produced one hundred and fifteen sources, ninety-five percent from historical societies, since large libraries held minimal information on the subject. For the Civil War buffs, chapters 5 through 9 give the "Woodhick's" (Pennsylvania Lumberjack) work ethic that made them a feared fighting force in the Union Army, known as the Bucktails.
Author : John Copeland Nagle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300162912
John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Alaska's Adak Island; the Susquehanna River; Colton in California's Inland Empire; Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the badlands of North Dakota; and Alamogordo in New Mexico. Nagle asks why some places are preserved by the law while others are not, and he finds that environmental laws often have unexpected results while other laws have surprising effects on the environment. Nagle argues that sound environmental policy requires better coordination among the many laws, regulations, and social norms that determine the values and uses of our scarce lands and waters.
Author : Charles Weathers Bump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Susquehanna River
ISBN : 1887530037
Author : Clarence Weathers Bump
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293577146
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Author : Colin Jerolmack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691241425
A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy Shale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being of our communities and our planet—whether or not to extract shale gas and oil from the very land beneath our feet—is largely a private choice that millions of ordinary people make without the public's consent. The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend "up to heaven and down to hell," which means that landowners have the exclusive right to lease their subsurface mineral estates to petroleum companies. Colin Jerolmack spent eight months living with rural communities outside of Williamsport as they confronted the tension between property rights and the commonwealth. In this deeply intimate book, he reveals how the decision to lease brings financial rewards but can also cause irreparable harm to neighbors, to communal resources like air and water, and even to oneself. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell casts America’s ideas about freedom and property rights in a troubling new light, revealing how your personal choices can undermine your neighbors’ liberty, and how the exercise of individual rights can bring unintended environmental consequences for us all.
Author : Charles Weathers Bump
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0364520035
Excerpt from Down the Historic Susquehanna: A Summer's Jaunt From Otsego to the Chesapeake Casting about for a reason, it seems to me that the fame of the Susquehanna has two distinct setbacks which have led to its comparative neglect by travelers in search of the picturesque or fond of tracing the footsteps of American history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles Weathers Bump
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0649564707
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Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813145822
All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
Author : Clarence Weathers Bump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Susquehanna River
ISBN : NYPL:33433081818928
Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : CHI:78119663
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207620
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Author : CHARLES WEATHERS. BUMP
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033594709
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : UIUC:30112069172150
