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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark S. FerraraPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231216371ISBN 10: 0231216378 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 02 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Digging Clinton’s Ditch 1. Decline and Fall of Iroquoia 2. Wharf Rats, Powder Monkeys, and Beasts of Burden 3. Navvies, Paddys, Loafers, and Trampers 4. Scolds, Witches, Wives, and Biddys 5. Slave Rescues, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad 6. Ghosts, Hellfire, and Revival on the Psychic Highway 7. Port Towns, Brothels, Slums, and Saloons Conclusion. Transforming Life and Work in America Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"Ferrara has written a terrific and necessary book about the deeper depths of the Erie Canal and the underside of the American Dream. With the bicentennial of the great waterway upon us, The Raging Erie uncovers the lives of the many laboring people who are often castaways in America’s first transportation revolution. A must-read. -- Richard S. Newman, author of <i>Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present</i> Ferrara reconsiders the Erie Canal by casting a wider net than any previous study. He argues that the canal failed as a creator of progress and a mystical ""bond of union"" once we consider the homes, lives, labors, and livelihoods of those people most immediately affected by it. Through wonderful, sharp chapters focusing on Indigenous communities, immigrant workers, children and families, enslaved and free peoples, fugitives from slavery, foot soldiers in nineteenth-century social justice movements (like abolitionists), vice industries, and the poor and downtrodden, Ferrara questions the very nature of progress. -- Ryan Dearinger, author of <i>The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West</i>" Ferrara has written a terrific and necessary book about the deeper depths of the Erie Canal and the underside of the American Dream. With the bicentennial of the great waterway upon us, Raging Erie uncovers the lives of the many laboring people who are often castaways in America’s first transportation revolution. A must-read. -- Richard S. Newman, author of <i>Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present</i> Author InformationMark S. Ferrara is professor of English at the State University of New York. His recent books include American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living (2020) and Living the Food Allergic Life (2023). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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