An expanded, new and improved American Environmental History textbook for everyone! After years of teaching Environmental History at a major East Coast Universi

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the US

French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed America's two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the

A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War. In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United Sta