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1. Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860

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Downey, Tom

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Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860 (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
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Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2007. Pp. [xx], 324. $48.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5.) In Troubled […]

Published
2009

2. Riparian rights and manufacturing in antebellum South Carolina: William Gregg and the origins of...

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Downey, Tom

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*RIPARIAN rights, SOUTH Carolina state history
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Studies the development of riparian rights and the manufacturing industry in South Carolina. Role of industrialist William Gregg in the approval of the An Act to Declare a Certain Description of Streams Navigable, and for Other Purposes; Impact of legislation approval on political economy; Contrasting lines of argument on effects of slavery on southern manufacturing.

Published
1999
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