Download or read book Merchants Farmers Railroads written by Lee Benson and published by New York : Russell & Russell. This book was released on 1969 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchants Farmers and Railroads written by Lee Benson and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchants Farmers and Railroads written by Lee Benson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads and Their Relations to the Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train written by Tom Zoellner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Download or read book Railroads and Regulations 1877 1916 written by Gabriel Kolko and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century. The continuity in governmental regulation from 1877 to 1900, in the Progressive Era, and in the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson are pointed out. The origin of each major federal railroad act and contending forces is analyzed. Federal regulation of the railroads, probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World War I is used as a key in reassessing the motives behind Progressivism. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book History of the Grange Movement Or The Farmer s War Against Monopolies written by James D. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads Triumphant written by Albro Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-02 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with few people settling more than a hundred miles from the ocean (a mere two percent lived west of the Appalachians). America in effect was just a thin ribbon of land by the sea, and it wasn't until the coming of the steam railroad that our nation would unfurl across the vast inland territory. In Railroads Triumphant, Albro Martin provides a fascinating history of rail transportation in America, moving well beyond the "Romance of the Rails" sort of narrative to give readers a real sense of the railroad's importance to our country. The railroad, Martin argues, was "the most fundamental innovation in American material life." It could go wherever rails could be laid--and so, for the first time, farms, industries, and towns could leave natural waterways behind and locate anywhere. (As Martin points out, the railroads created small-town America just as surely as the automobile created the suburbs.) The railroad was our first major industry, and it made possible or promoted the growth of all other industries, among them coal, steel, flour milling, and commercial farming. It established such major cities as Chicago, and had a lasting impact on urban design. And it worked hand in hand with the telegraph industry to transform communication. Indeed, the railroads were the NASA of the 19th century, attracting the finest minds in finance, engineering, and law. But Martin doesn't merely catalogue the past greatness of the railroad. In closing with the episodes that led first to destructive government regulation, and then to deregulation of the railroads and the ensuing triumphant rebirth of the nation's basic means of moving goods from one place to another, Railroads Triumphant offers an impassioned defense of their enduring importance to American economic life. And it is a book informed by a lifelong love of railroads, brimming with vivid descriptions of classic depots, lavish hotels in Chicago, the great railroad founders, and the famous lines. Thoughtful and colorful by turn, this insightful history illuminates the impact of the railroad on our lives.
Download or read book Moody s Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 2252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arcade and Attica Railroad written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rail Freight Transportation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Nationalisation and the Farmer written by William Henry Moore and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparison, drawn from the Final report of the Dominions royal commission, of the conditions of agriculture in Australia under railway nationalisation with the conditions under private ownership in Canada.
Download or read book The Robber Barons written by Matthew Josephson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1962 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.
Download or read book The Story of the Waynesville Port William and Jeffersonville Railroad written by Mike Mason and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many young railroadfs around the United States in the late 1800's were known as "Grasshopper" railroads because of the type of engines they used. Long after these engines were phased out, the name stuck. This is the story of the "Grasshopper" Railroad that was funded by farmers, often in bankruptcy, and was at one time owned by Mr. Henry Ford, running through mid-western Ohio for some 77 years.
Download or read book Railway Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads and the Granger Laws written by George Hall Miller and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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