{"product_id":"mastering-the-inland-seas-how-lighthouses-navigational-aids-and-harbors-transformed-the-great-lakes-and-america-hardback-9780299326302","title":"Mastering the Inland Seas; How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America (Hardback) 9780299326302","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMastering the Inland Seas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTheodore J. Karamanski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299326302\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 24 black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.655 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMastering the Inland Seas\u003c\/i\u003e offers a broad panorama of the conflicts, policies, and personalities that created the modern navigation system on the Great Lakes. Far more than just lighthouses, it draws in the political storms of antebellum America, the federal government's role, and the long-term impact of these encounters.\" - Matthew Lawrence Daley, Grand Valley State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificently researched and written with clarity and high energy, Karamanski's \u003ci\u003eMastering the Inland Seas\u003c\/i\u003e tells the hidden history of how generations of maritime peoples-from indigenous canoe paddlers to modern mariners-navigated and domesticated the watery wilderness of the Great Lakes.\" - Robert Michael Morrissey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTheodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics, and environment of continental North America. Synthesizing popular as well as original historical scholarship, Karamanski weaves a colorful narrative illustrating how disparate private and government interests transformed these vast and dangerous waters into the largest inland water transportation system in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaramanski explores both the navigational and sailing tools of First Nations peoples and the dismissive and foolhardy attitude of early European maritime sailors. He investigates the role played by commercial boats in the Underground Railroad, as well as how the federal development of crucial navigational resources exacerbated sectionalism in the antebellum United States. Ultimately \u003ci\u003eMastering the Inland Sea\u003c\/i\u003e shows the undeniable environmental impact of technologies used by the modern commercial maritime industry. This expansive story illuminates the symbiotic relationship between infrastructure investment in the region's interconnected waterways and North America's lasting economic and political development.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530904105240,"sku":"9780299326302","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mastering-the-inland-seas-how-lighthouses-navigational-aids-and-harbors-transformed-the-great-lakes-and-america-hardback-9780299326302","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}