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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(4):841-843; doi:10.1093/es/khn087
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Paul F. Paskoff. Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvii + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5, $48.00 (cloth)

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This thoroughly researched, clearly written volume analyzes the impact of federal river and harbor improvements on ante bellum Western steamboat transportation. The book contains an introduction, six chapters, an epilogue, and four appendices, along with an excellent bibliography, thirty-two tables, and fifty-three figures. The figures are inadequately cited; the source is invariably "see notes to text," which are not always clear. The book follows in the tradition of Louis Hunter, Steamboats on Western Rivers, 1949, and Erik Haites, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Mark Aldrich

Marilyn Carlson Nelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Smith College


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