Canal Fever
Season 1, Episode 2
The invention of the canal dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, and has withstood the test of time. From the first irrigation canals built thousands of years ago to the modern, concrete monsters we see today, this type of structure has brought progress wherever its waters have flowed. In this episode of Under the Low Bridge, Josh and Adrian explore a waterway familiar to residents of the Midwest: The Ohio & Erie Canal.
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Works Cited:
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Koeppel, Gerard. Bond of the Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2009.
McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Metzger, Lynn, and Bobel, Peg. Canal fever: the Ohio & Erie Canal, from waterway to canalway. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009.
Nash, Linda Lorraine. Inescapable ecologies: a history of environment, disease, and culture in the history of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Snowden, Frank Martin. The conquest of malaria: Italy, 1900-1962. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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