영문목차
Contents
List of tables page ix
Acknowledgements xi
Chronology of construction for main canals xii
Abbreviations xv
Map: Main canals of the North American Canal Era, 1780-1860 xvii
Introduction 1
1 Early canals, 1780-1812 18
2 "As low as labor and capital can afford": the contracting system, 1817-1840 47
3 "Human labor, physical and intelligent" 76
4 Payment "fit for labouring people" 105
5 "The greatest quantity of labour" 131
6 "Canawlers and citizens" 163
7 "Guerilla war": labour conflict in the 1830s 200
8 "This new order of things": the 1840s-1850s 229
Conclusion 265
Appendix 1: Tables 1-16 275
Appendix 2: Tables 17-18 287
Index 301