Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755-1825

by John Seelye

This book, the second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, explores how George Washington's vision of a "more perfect union" for America--based upon the linking of the nation's waterways by technical means--was carried out. The first volume, Prophetic Waters, dealt with the way rivers, especially in Virginia, influenced life and literature of the period. This book takes the story into the opening decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045513
• ISBN13: 9780195045512
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"