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• Introduction : the project of the century
• Prometheanism versus conservationism on the railway
• Crime and corruption in BAM society
• Working alone : women on the railway
• National differentiation and marginalization on the railway
• The rails of fraternal cooperation : BAMers abroad and foreigners at home
• Conclusion : Brezhnev's folly in perspective.

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Timeline
• Maps
• Treaty ports and other foreign stations
• Principal characters
• Introduction
• Appendix
• Notes
• Glossary of terms.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers--principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan--signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them--the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin--became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers during China's century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943--a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation. China's Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared in China during the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China's Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabited China's treaty port world.

• The discourse of development : the railroad debate of the early Porfiriato
• De viaje : elite views of modernity and the railroad boom
• Festivals of progress : the railroad ceremony
• The price of progress : popular perceptions of the railroad accident
• La loco-matona : the railroad in the popular and opposition press.

"In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation's status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico's railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination. In The Civilizing Machine, Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of General Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, "order and progress." The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution."-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface to the Cornell Edition
• Preface
• Part 1
• 1. The Chief
• 2. Mastering Nature
• 3. The Dreamway
• 4. The GI and the General
• Part 2
• 5. A Grand Plan
• 6. The Great Puzzle
• 7. Lines of Desire
• Part 3
• 8. Revolt
• 9. Busting the Trust
• 10. New Rules
• 11. Continental Drift
• 12. The Greatest of Improvements
• Sources and Notes Selected Bibliography Supplemental Bibliography to the Cornell Edition Acknowledgments Index.
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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators. This is a story of America's hopes for its future life and the realities of its present condition. It is an engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape-and the daily lives of Americans. In this updated edition of Divided Highways, Lewis brings his story of the Interstate system up to date, concluding with Boston's troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.
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• Introduction : the logic of the air
• The Americanization of the airplane
• Good neighbors are close neighbors
• Global visions, national interests
• "America's lifeline to Africa"
• From open door to open sky
• Mass air travel and the routes of the Cold War
• The jet age and the limits of American power
• Conclusion : "Empires rise and empires fall."

From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspired Americans to reimagine their nation's place within the world. Now, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' rise to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to carry and deliver American power across the globe and to sell the very idea of the "American Century" to the public at home and abroad. Invented on American soil and widely viewed as a symbol of national greatness, the airplane promised to extend the frontiers of the United States "to infinity, " as Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe said. As it accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, weapons, popular culture, and expertise, few places remained distant from the influence of Wall Street and Washington. Aviation promised to secure a new type of empire--an empire of the air instead of the land, which emphasized access to markets rather than the conquest of territory and made the entire world America's sphere of influence. By the late 1960s, however, foreign airlines and governments were challenging America's control of global airways, and the domestic aviation industry hit turbulent times. Just as the history of commercial aviation helps to explain the ascendance of American power, its subsequent challenges reflect the limits and contradictions of the American Century.
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Jenifer Van Vleck' s Empire of the Air reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the U.S. ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century, as the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and sell the idea of the " American Century" to the public at home and abroad.
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• Part I. Networks:
• 1. Ports--
• 2. Shipping--
• 3. Trading companies and their commodities--
• 4. Intermediaries--
• 5. Culture-- Part II. Exchanges:
• 6. World War I--
• 7. The time of troubles--
• 8. War and remaking, 1939-60s--
• 9. Transformation.
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Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. He argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalization. Miller also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars. He chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Auto/Mobile Lives
• 1. "All Shall Pass": Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-1939
• 2. "Honest Labor": Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-1945
• 3. "Modern Men": Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s
• 4. "One Man, No Chop": Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana
• 5. "Sweet Not Always": Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990s Epilogue. "No Rest for the Trotro Driver": Ambivalence and Automobility in 21st Century Ghana Notes Bibliography Index.
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As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.
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First published in 1938, Volume two deals with Canadian transportation from 1867 to the late 1930s, and includes what is regarded as one of the best short discussions of the Canadian "railway problem.".
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• Marine Insurance in the Netherlands 1600-1870 - 2[-]Contents - 6[-]List of tables, graphs and maps - 8[-]Abbrevations - 9[-]Acknowledgements - 10[-]
• Chapter 1 Introduction - 14[-]
• Chapter 2 Groningen:mutual interests and financial innovation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - 32[-]
• Chapter 3 Amsterdam:individuals, ineffectual regulations and intricate balances of power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - 62[-]
• Chapter 4 Rotterdam: commercial and political collusion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 160[-]
• Chapter 5: Conclusion - 272[-]Samenvatting(summary in Dutch) - 290[-]Archival Sources - 304[-]Index - 320.
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Marine insurance has been of great importance to the expansion of long distance trade and economic growth in the early modern period, in particular for seafaring nations such as the Dutch Republic. The Amsterdam market became Europe's leading insurance market and within the Republic other insurance systems also emerged. Little is known about the differing institutional frameworks governing these industries and the interaction between the institutions and the actors in the industry. This study will examine the development of marine insurance in the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the province of Groningen from c. 1600 to 1870 from an institutional point of view. It will examine how the behaviour of authorities, insurers, underwriters and brokers was affected by the formal and informal constraints of the industry and how in turn their conduct has influenced the institutional framework and induced institutional change. A comparative institutional analysis will be made of three insurance systems in the Netherlands, each with its own distinctive characteristics. The interaction between institutions and actors will be studied in relation to the effects of technological innovations and international geo-political changes. By examining developments over a period of two and half centuries the path of long-term institutional change becomes discernable.
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• Marine Insurance in the Netherlands 1600-1870 - 2[-]Contents - 6[-]List of tables, graphs and maps - 8[-]Abbrevations - 9[-]Acknowledgements - 10[-]
• Chapter 1 Introduction - 14[-]
• Chapter 2 Groningen:mutual interests and financial innovation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - 32[-]
• Chapter 3 Amsterdam:individuals, ineffectual regulations and intricate balances of power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - 62[-]
• Chapter 4 Rotterdam: commercial and political collusion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 160[-]
• Chapter 5: Conclusion - 272[-]Samenvatting(summary in Dutch) - 290[-]Archival Sources - 304[-]Index - 320.
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Marine insurance has been of great importance to the expansion of long distance trade and economic growth in the early modern period, in particular for seafaring nations such as the Dutch Republic. The Amsterdam market became Europe's leading insurance market and within the Republic other insurance systems also emerged. Little is known about the differing institutional frameworks governing these industries and the interaction between the institutions and the actors in the industry. This study will examine the development of marine insurance in the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the province of Groningen from c. 1600 to 1870 from an institutional point of view. It will examine how the behaviour of authorities, insurers, underwriters and brokers was affected by the formal and informal constraints of the industry and how in turn their conduct has influenced the institutional framework and induced institutional change. A comparative institutional analysis will be made of three insurance systems in the Netherlands, each with its own distinctive characteristics. The interaction between institutions and actors will be studied in relation to the effects of technological innovations and international geo-political changes. By examining developments over a period of two and half centuries the path of long-term institutional change becomes discernable.
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• Youth
• Trackside childhood
• From newsboy to roundhouse : starting to work
• Fireman I
• Learning to fire
• Life along the rails
• My mentor on the road
• Fireman II
• At the rat hole flashing the door
• Old heads, rails, and boomers
• Railroad hazards and wrecks
• Engineer
• Engineer on the Rio Grande
• Running the Utah trains
• Life on the Utah Railway.

In 1917, Gilbert Gould achieved his dream to be an engineer, and began running engines for the Denver & Rio Grande and later for the Utah Railway. He was a natural storyteller, and his recollections are entertaining and historically rewarding.

• pt.
• 1. The state enterprise, 1820-1850
• pt.
• 2. The course of economic change, 1820-1851
• pt.
• 3. Beginning of the railroad age to 1861.

Ohio Canal Era, a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre-Civil War transportation revolution. This edition contains a new foreword by scholar Lawrence M. Friedman and a bibliographic note by the author. Professor Scheiber explores how Ohio-as a "public enterprise state, " creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and control-led in the process of economic change before the Civil War. No other historical account of the period provides so full and insightful a portrayal of "law in action." Scheiber reveals the important roles of American nineteenth- century government in economic policy-making, finance, administration, and entrepreneurial activities in support of economic development. His study is equally important as an economic history. Scheiber provides a full account of waves of technological innovation and of the transformation of Ohio's commerce, agriculture, and industrialization in an era of hectic economic change. And he tells the intriguing story of how the earliest railroads of the Old Northwest were built and financed, finally confronting the state- owned canal system with a devastating competitive challenge. Amid the current debate surrounding "privatization, " "deregulation, " and the appropriate use of "industrial policy" by government to shape and channel the economy. Scheiber's landmark study gives vital historical context to issues of privatization and deregulation that we confront in new forms today.
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• pt.
• 1. The state enterprise, 1820-1850
• pt.
• 2. The course of economic change, 1820-1851
• pt.
• 3. Beginning of the railroad age to 1861.

Ohio Canal Era, a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre-Civil War transportation revolution. This edition contains a new foreword by scholar Lawrence M. Friedman and a bibliographic note by the author. Professor Scheiber explores how Ohio-as a "public enterprise state, " creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and control-led in the process of economic change before the Civil War. No other historical account of the period provides so full and insightful a portrayal of "law in action." Scheiber reveals the important roles of American nineteenth- century government in economic policy-making, finance, administration, and entrepreneurial activities in support of economic development. His study is equally important as an economic history. Scheiber provides a full account of waves of technological innovation and of the transformation of Ohio's commerce, agriculture, and industrialization in an era of hectic economic change. And he tells the intriguing story of how the earliest railroads of the Old Northwest were built and financed, finally confronting the state- owned canal system with a devastating competitive challenge. Amid the current debate surrounding "privatization, " "deregulation, " and the appropriate use of "industrial policy" by government to shape and channel the economy. Scheiber's landmark study gives vital historical context to issues of privatization and deregulation that we confront in new forms today.
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• Envisioning Promontory (1820-1850)
• In the path of history (1850-1865)
• The battle of the maps (1865-1868)
• A moment of glory : Promontory, 1869
• On the early mainline (1869-1875)
• Big time railroading (1875-1904)
• A regional branchline (1904-1942)
• A changing countryside & landscape (1904-1942)
• Remembering Promontory (1942-present)
• Epilogue : full circle.

Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion - the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south into the Great Salt Lake. The transportation corridor that for the first time linked America's coasts gave this distinctive region significance, but it anchored two centuries of human activity linked to the area's landscape. Francaviglia brings to that larger story a geographer's perspective on place and society, a railroad enthusiast's know.

• INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE THE PHYSICAL SETTING; CHAPTER TWO FOUNDATIONS OF THE ENTREPOT TRADE; CHAPTER THREE DEVELOPMENT PRIOR TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR; CHAPTER FOUR DESTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION, 1941-6; CHAPTER FIVE RECONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1946-50; CHAPTER SIX MODERNIZATION OF THE PORT, 1951-70; CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION AND PROSPECT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: The Once and Future Railtown
• 1. An Eighteen-Month Promise
• 2. The New Mulholland
• 3. Bureaucratic Paper Shuffling and Jurisdictional Squabbling
• 4. Henry Waxman’s Hot Air
• 5. Tunnel Stiffs, Fires, and Sinkholes
• 6. The Wish List
• 7. A Knife in the Seat
• 8. Of Race and Rail
• 9. Switching Tracks
• 10. Subway to the Sea
• Conclusion: The Future of Los Angeles Rail and the American City
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Contents; ONE: The Beginning of an Era; TWO: The Admiral Line Becomes Supreme; THREE: World War I and Coastwise Shipping, 1917-1920; FOUR: The Strike and After, 1921-1924; FIVE: The Postwar Decade: Three Problems; SIX: The Crest of Prosperity, 1925-1929; SEVEN: Passenger Travel; EIGHT: The Last Struggle, 1930-1936; NINE: The Passing of an Era; Appendix; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

This chronicle of coastal shipping in the western United States forms an important but hitherto neglected part of the history of transportation in America. From the beginning the seaways were a vital link among the developing West Coast settlements, and even after the completion of a north-south rail line sturdy steamers continued to serve as the major carriers of freight and passengers along the Pacific Coast and as the chief economic and cultural contact of this region with the rest of America. Here, Giles T. Brown surveys this transportation system at the height of its activity and in particular he traces the history of the Admiral Line which dominated West Coast shipping during the early decades of the twentieth century-and whose decline mirrored that of the industry.
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• Introduction by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
• Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
• 1. The Elusive People's Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practices along the "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism" (1945-1968) by Valentina Fava
• 2. Cars as Favors in People's Poland by Mariusz Jastrzab
• 3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980 by Gyoergy Peteri
• Part Two: Mobility and Socialist Cities
• 4. Planning for Mobility: Designing City Centers and New Towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s by Elke Beyer
• 5. Automobility in Yugoslavia between Urban Planner, Market, and Motorist: The Case of Belgrade, 1945-1972 by Brigitte Le Normand
• 6. On the Streets of a Truck-Building City: Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev Era by Esther Meier
• 7. Understanding a Car in the Context of a System: Trabants, Marzahn, and East German Socialism by Eli Rubin
• Part Three: Socialist Car Cultures and Automobility
• 8. The Common Heritage of the Socialist Car Culture by Luminita Gatejel
• 9. Autobasteln: Modifying, Maintaining, and Repairing Private Cars in the GDR, 1970-1990 by Kurt Moeser
• 10. "Little Tsars of the Road": Soviet Truck Drivers and Automobility, 1920s-1980s by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
• 11. Women and Cars in Soviet and Russian Society by Corinna Kuhr-Korolev
• Notes Notes on Contributors Index.
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Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The "socialist car"-and the car culture that built up around it-was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. In The Socialist Car, eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore in vivid detail the interface between the motorcar and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR. In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the socialist car embodied East Europeans' longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The socialist car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility-shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways-prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. In this collective history, the authors put aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the socialist car in its own context. Contributors: Elke Beyer, Swiss Institute of Technology; Valentina Fava, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and University of Helsinki; Luminita Gatejel, European University Institute, Florence; Mariusz Jastrzab, Kozminski University; Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, University of Bochum; Brigitte Le Normand, Indiana University Southeast; Esther Meier, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg; Kurt Moeser, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Gyoergy Peteri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Eli Rubin, Western Michigan University; Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Michigan State University.
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• The great national object
• Choosing the route
• Surveyors, engineers, and contractors
• Digging the ditch
• Creating the lifts
• Managing the water
• Building bridges
• Community relations
• Working on the Welland
• Conflict and survival on the ground
• Into the future.

How "Mr. Merritt's Ditch" became a link in the chain of inland waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and North America's heartland.

• The great national object
• Choosing the route
• Surveyors, engineers, and contractors
• Digging the ditch
• Creating the lifts
• Managing the water
• Building bridges
• Community relations
• Working on the Welland
• Conflict and survival on the ground
• Into the future.

How "Mr. Merritt's Ditch" became a link in the chain of inland waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and North America's heartland.