Narrative middles : navigating the nineteenth-century British novel /

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To California by sea : a maritime history of the California gold rush / by Delgado, James P.

Subjects: “…Navigation California History 19th century.…”
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The Frances Smith : palace steamer of the upper Great Lakes, 1867-96 / by Cameron, Scott L., 1937-

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War upon our border : two Ohio Valley communities navigate the Civil War / by Rockenbach, Stephen I., 1971-

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Coal, steam and ships : engineering, enterprise and empire on the nineteenth-century seas / by Smith, Crosbie

Table of Contents: “…"Trust in the promises of God" : the moral and spiritual credibility of steam navigation -- "The character of fine workmanship" : making Clydeside's marine engineering reputation -- "A swarm of projectors" : promises of North Atlantic steam navigation -- "This noble vessel" : realizing the promises of transatlantic steam -- "Giving rich promise of serious intentions" : Mr Cunard's line of steamers -- "Proprietor of the Atlantic Ocean" : politics and patronage on the seas -- "Mail-coaches of the ocean" : the West India Company project -- "A most perilous enterprise" : Royal Mail Steam Packet's vulnerabilities -- "In highly creditable order" : RMSP's new board of management in action -- "She was one mass of fire" : reading the maiden voyage of the Royal Mail Steamer Amazon -- "An uncompromising adherence to punctuality" : Pacific steam from Valparaiso to Panama -- "Built on a large, commodious and powerful scale" : forging P & O's Eastern mail steamship system -- "So great a cloud of obloquy and mistrust" : locking and unlocking the secrets of a maritime empire -- "A more desirable result in the performance of the vessel" : P & O's mail steamers in action -- "She would be perfectly stable and strong" : rival systems of engineering economy -- "The engines were imperfect" : Pacific Steam's coal economy -- "A constant succession of unfathomable and costly experiments" : making credible the marine compound engine -- "The modern Clyde ships" : economy and power for ocean steam navigation -- "The sovereignty of the seas" : the maritime system builders.…”
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Flagships of imperialism : the P & O Company and the politics of empire from its origins to 1867. by Harcourt, Freda

Subjects: “…Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company History.…”
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Old times on the upper Mississippi : recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 / by Merrick, George Byron

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The diary of a maritimer, 1816-1901 : life and times of Joseph Salter /

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Engines of empire : steamships and the Victorian imagination / by Burgess, Douglas R., Jr

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The diary of a maritimer, 1816-1901 : the life and times of Joseph Salter / by Salter, Joseph, 1816-1901

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Old times on the upper Mississippi : recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 / by Merrick, George Byron

Table of Contents: “…List of steamboats on the upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863 -- B. Opening of navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862 -- C. Table of distances from St. …”
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The steamboat Montana and the opening of the West : history, excavation, and architecture / by Corbin, Annalies

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Gibbons v. Ogden : John Marshall, steamboats, and the commerce clause / by Johnson, Herbert Alan

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Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic / by Cox, Thomas H.

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The sea and nineteenth-century Anglophone literary culture /

Table of Contents: “…Rozwadowski -- Charles Francis Hall's Arctic researchers / Hester Blum -- Keeping up with the Morrells: sailors and the construction of American identity in antebellum sea narratives / Amy Parsons -- "The perils of crossings": nineteenth-century navigations of City and sea / Sophie Gilmartin -- Seeing through water: the paintings of Zach Pritchard / Margaret Cohen -- Pacific Ocean flowers: Colonial seaweed albums / Molly Duggins -- The sea as green fields: calenture and Wordsworth's Rural ocean / Frank Mabee -- Melville's "Brit": an etymological and ecocritical chomp into Moby-Dick / Richard J. …”

Voyage to the moon and other imaginary lunar flights of fancy in antebellum America /

“…Orrin Lindsay's plan of aerial navigation.…”

The monied metropolis : New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 / by Beckert, Sven

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Ira Aldridge / by Lindfors, Bernth

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Antebellum Jefferson, Texas : everyday life in an East Texas town / by Bagur, Jacques D.

Table of Contents: “…Background -- What Jefferson was -- Foundations -- Townsite -- Emergence -- Development -- Censuses -- Women -- Slaves -- Roads and bridges -- County seat -- Municipal affairs -- Wharves -- Navigation -- Navigation controversies -- Market area -- Primary business types -- Commodity markets -- Warehouse district -- Earliest merchants -- Early 1850s merchants -- Middle 1850s merchants -- Late merchants -- Miscellaneous businesses -- Manufacturing -- Packeries -- Structural features -- The professions -- Politics -- Fraternal organizations -- Religion -- Education -- Hotels -- Stables -- Stagecoaches -- Newspapers -- Postal services -- Telegraph -- Railroads -- Sports -- Culture and entertainment -- Balls and dances -- Crime -- Vice -- Health and welfare -- Mortality.…”
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Escape to the city : fugitive slaves in the antebellum urban South / by Müller, Viola Franziska, 1987-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Rethinking slave flight -- The urgency to escape -- The making of the new fugitive slave -- Receiving communities, illegality, and the absence of freedom -- Navigating the city -- Finding work, remaining poor -- Urban politics and Black labor -- Conclusion : The ambiguities of illegality.…”
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