Download or read book Railroads and American Law written by James W. Ely, Jr. and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.

Download or read book Program of Railroad Legislation written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railway Legislation in the United States written by Balthasar Henry Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Railroad Retirement Legislation written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Railroad Retirement Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Restrictive Railway Legislation written by Henry Stevens Haines and published by New York, London : Macmillan & Company, Limited. This book was released on 1905 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work contains the substance of a course of twelve lectures delivered in April and May, 1905, at the Boston university School of law."--Preface.

Download or read book The Law of Railroad Rate Regulation written by Joseph Henry Beale and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Transconintental sic Railroad Legislation 1835 1862 written by Thamar E. Dufwa and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Early Railroad Legislation in Wisconsin written by Balthasar Henry Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remedial Railroad Legislation 1919 written by Association of Railway Executives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Railroad Legislation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers miscellaneous legislation to revise railroad ratemaking and billing regulations. Includes legislation to revise freight carriers damage liability requirements and litigation procedures, to establish ICC regulatory authority over securities issues of interurban electric railways, to revise joint water and rail carriers service route termination procedures, and to revise procedure for railroad rate schedules publication for overseas shippers. Also includes legislation to revise U.S. Railroad Administration reimbursement procedure for freight rate overcharges made during wartime Federal control of railroads.

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 Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners written by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroad Legislation written by Academy of Political Science (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: