Download or read book The Railroad Grows Into an Industry 1840 1850 written by Kathleen Tracy and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 1820s, the main form of commercial transportation in America was steamboats, which were able to move large quantities of freight and passengers. When the first railroads were built, they were initially seen as a novelty. But a handful of visionaries believed that railroads could transform the way business was conducted and create new opportunities for both established companies and independent entrepreneurs. In the 1840s and the 1850s, the railroad industry would experience tremendous growth and become the primary means of moving goods throughout the United States. Expansion of the rail system stimulated the economy, promoted manufacturing, and turned railroads into one of the most valuable industries in the world, making their owners millionaires and industrial–age power brokers in the process. Railroads also helped make America one of the most dominant economic powers in the world.
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Download or read book Southern Railroads and Western Trade 1840 1850 written by Robert Spencer Cotterill and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Train and the Telegraph written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
Download or read book The West the Railroads Made written by Carlos A. Schwantes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes schedule of the California Zephyr, and brief comments about points of interest along the route from Chicago to San Francisco.
Download or read book The Industrial Resources Etc of the Southern and Western States written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States 1840 1860 written by Allan Pred and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work of urban geography, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades. The book focuses on the availability and distribution of crucial economic information. For as cities developed, this information helped determine the new urban areas in which business opportunities could be exploited and productive innovations implemented. Pred places this original approach to urbanization in the context of earlier, more conventional studies, and he supports his view by a wealth of evidence regarding the flow of commodities between major cities. He also draws on an analysis of newspaper circulation, postal services, business travel, and telegraph usage. Pred's book goes far beyond the usual "biographies" of individual cities or the specialized studies of urban life. It offers a large and fascinating view of the way an entire city-system was put together and made to function. Indeed, by providing the first full account of these two decades of American urbanization, Pred has supplied a vital and hitherto missing link in the history of the United States.
Download or read book The Industrial Resources Etc of the Southern and Western States Embracing a View of Their Commerce Agriculture Manufactures Together with Historical and Statistical Sketches of the Different States and Cities of the Union Etc written by James Dunwood Brownson DE BOW and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Industrial Resources Statistics of the United Sates and More Particularly of the Southern and Western States written by James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Republic and Antebellum America written by Christopher G. Bates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 1453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Download or read book The Industrial Revolutions in Europe II Volume 5 written by Patrick O'Brien and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-04-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern European economic history is marked by an endeavor to transcend the traditional national case study approach, to use comparisons and to deploy economic theory in order to draw the manifold and diverse experiences of the regions, countries and multicultural empires of Europe onto a unified frame of reference. These two volumes exemplify this modern approach. This Volume 5, of the eleven part set entitled Industrial Revolutions contains thirteen papers, with an introduction, which adopt and apply a conceptual and explicitly comparative approach to European economic history as a whole. Volume 5 includes sixteen national case studies, again organized around or set within the context of theoretical principles and ideas derived largely from macroeconomic theory, social accounting, productivity measurement and regional analysis.
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Download or read book The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History written by William O. Aydelotte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine papers consider problems in American, French, and British history that range from economic history to political behavior and social structure. Originally published in 1972. 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 The Promise of Growth and Prosperity written by Dawn Duncan Funk and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settled in the wilds of the Carolina back country in the mid-eighteenth century, Charlotte and Salisbury, North Carolina grew up in isolation and independence. The two courthouse towns commanded the business of the surrounding countryside, but faced limited growth and economic stagnation because of their remote inland location and inadequate transportation outlets to larger trade markets. In the 1840s, a group of farmers, merchants, and professionals in Charlotte and Salisbury seized upon the railroad as the means to alleviate their transportation problems and stimulate growth in their region. Both towns acquired railroad lines in the 1850s and experienced a degree of growth and prosperity. The railroad ended their isolation and drew Charlotte and Salisbury into the regional and national economy, sparking an intense rivalry as each sought economic dominance in the region. But the railroad was only the first step in the process of urbanization for these towns. It did not ensure substantial growth or continued prosperity. Other factors - location, timing, available capital, and the ability to take risks - allowed town leaders to seize opportunities and determined the path of future growth and development. While Charlotte was able to overcome the challenges wrought by war and changes in the agricultural and labor system of the South, Salisbury could not. Charlotte surged forward, acquiring more railroad lines and investing in manufacturing and industry while Salisbury was left behind because its leaders failed to take risks and seize the opportunities that came their way.
Download or read book The Industrial Resources Etc of the Southern and Western States Embracing a View of Their Commerce Agriculture Manufacturers Internal Improvements written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Roots of American Industrialization written by David R. Meyer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
