The Navigable Rhine: The Development of its Shipping the Basis of the Prosperity of Its Commerce and its Traffic in 1907
by CLAPP, Edwin J
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, September 1911. Hardcover. ex library-good +. Hart, Schaffner & Marx Prize Economic Essays IX. xvii, 134 p., interspersed with plates. 21 cm. Frontispiece and 18 other plates. Burgundy cloth. Light wear and rubbing. Ex library with mark from label on lower spine, ink stamp on a front page, mark on rear endpaper. Half title has label of former owner.
Topics: growing predominance of bulk goods in commerce; improvements of the channel and the boats; development of the Rhine's sea and river harbors; steamboat companies; railroads; traffic in German Rhine harbors; water rates; comparison with Mississippi. Index.
Topics: growing predominance of bulk goods in commerce; improvements of the channel and the boats; development of the Rhine's sea and river harbors; steamboat companies; railroads; traffic in German Rhine harbors; water rates; comparison with Mississippi. Index.
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- Attic Books (CA)
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- Title
- The Navigable Rhine: The Development of its Shipping the Basis of the Prosperity of Its Commerce and its Traffic in 1907
- Author
- CLAPP, Edwin J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - ex library-good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- September 1911
- Keywords
- Commerce, River Rhine, Boats, Shipping, Harbors, Steamboats, Railroads, Germany, Water rates, Mississippi river, Economics
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