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About this book
The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield's original work.
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British HistoryTable of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface to the Ninth Edition
- Note and Acknowledgements
- 1. Origins
- 2. Building the Canals
- 3. Early Life on the Canals
- 4. The Arteries of the Revolution
- 5. The Canal Mania and the Wars
- 6. Canals, Seas and Ports
- 7. The Golden Years
- 8. The Rivers during the Canal Age
- 9. War with the Railways
- 10. The Years of Decline
- 11. Time of Hope
- 12. Towards Nationalization
- 13. Between Transport and Amenity
- 14. Into the Second Canal Age
- Notes
- Further Reading
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