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Bond of Union, Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
by Gerard Koeppel
- HISTORY
- 2010
- PAPER
- 480 PAGES
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Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects. It was the Erie Canal that first opened up the West to American enterprise and imagination, bringing vast riches and a far-reaching vision to a rapidly expanding nation
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