An edition of Beautiful machine (1991)

Beautiful machine

rivers and the Republican plan, 1755-1825

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An edition of Beautiful machine (1991)

Beautiful machine

rivers and the Republican plan, 1755-1825

The second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, Beautiful Machine explores a critical, transitional period in American history, taking as its starting point the French and Indian War -- the event that determined domination of North America by an Anglo-American presence -- and ending with the opening of the Erie Canal -- the event that determined the geopolitical alignment that would guarantee a northeastern hegemony as the new nation moved West. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson figure prominently as visionaries, who saw American rivers as agents of national unity with the promise of linking Virginia's Potomac to the wealth of the Ohio Valley. - Jacket flap.

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English
Pages
430

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Beautiful machine: rivers and the Republican plan, 1755-1825
1991, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Prologue : The shadow of the dome
Ancestral voices
Fertile ground
Garden bright with sinuous rills
Flashing eyes and floating hair
Beware! Beware!
The fountain and the cave
Damsel with a dulcimer
Measureless to man
Interlude : Milk of paradise
Midway on the waves
Stately decree
Through wood and dale
With music loud and long
A miracle of rare device
Mingled measures
O, that deep romantic chasm
Epilogue : ceaseless turmoil
Textus : a note

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-401) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/321693
Library of Congress
PS195.R55 S39 1991, PS195.R55S39 1991

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 430 p.
Number of pages
430
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1885013M
Internet Archive
beautifulmachine0000seel
ISBN 10
0195045513
ISBN 13
9780195045512
LCCN
90046000
OCLC/WorldCat
22542088
Library Thing
1934733
Goodreads
750555

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