Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway /

The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world''s greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The 1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports o...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Alexander, Jeff, 1962-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press ©2009.
سلاسل:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/j.ctt7ztcxv
جدول المحتويات:
  • PROLOGUE: Death of an icon
  • DOMINION: Conquering nature
  • Vampires of the deep
  • Salt in the wound
  • Alewife invasion
  • A king is born
  • PLAGUE: Fatal error
  • Dangerous cargo
  • Reckoning
  • Ruffe seas
  • Smoke and mirrors
  • Meltdown
  • DREISSENA EFFECT: Something amuck
  • Blue, green, and deadly
  • Cruel hoax
  • Caspian Sea diet
  • Whitefish and green slime
  • Paradox
  • Fear this
  • BETRAYAL: Dirty secrets
  • Who's in charge?
  • Mission impossible
  • Seaway heretics
  • Westward Ho!
  • Saving paradise
  • EPILOGUE: Hope amid the ruins.