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Book Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association  English Edition

Download or read book Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association English Edition written by International Railway Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Across the Borders

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  • Author : Günter Dinhobl
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-03-02
  • ISBN : 1351961004
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Across the Borders written by Günter Dinhobl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economies. 'Across the Borders' not only opens the door for fundamental new insights into a trans-national view of railway history, but also contributes to a breakthrough in the wider study of the subject, providing the first extensive historical investigation of the worldwide system of railway financing. This book provides a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in Europe managed to face the challenges of constructing and maintaining an integrated railway network, both in their own countries and their colonies. This volume offers analysis from a selection of experts exploring the trans-national investment policies of railway construction based on numerous historical case-studies. The chapters provide insight into the international opportunities that existed for railway financing, from the perspective of economic, social, transport and railway history. With contributions from authors from 19 countries the volume is a truly international work that will be of interest to academic researchers, museum staff, archivists, and anyone who has an interest in the history and development of railways.

Book Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association

Download or read book Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association written by International Railway Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Word and the Mirror

Download or read book The Word and the Mirror written by Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These illuminating essays generally follow the chronology of the twentieth-century Spanish poet Luis Cernuda's creative life, beginning with the poet's early surrealist collections and encompassing his last volume of verse, Desolacion de la quimera (The disconsolate chimera). The select bibliography includes all significant items of Cernuda criticism of the past forty years.

Book Monthly Bulletin

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  • Author : International Railway Congress Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 948 pages

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by International Railway Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pan American Magazine

Download or read book The Pan American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sugar and Railroads

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  • Author : Oscar Zanetti
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 0807866431
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Sugar and Railroads written by Oscar Zanetti and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through the 1959 Revolution. More broadly, the book uses the development of the Cuban rail transport system to provide a fascinating perspective on Cuban history, particularly the story of its predominant agro-industry, sugar. While railroads facilitated the sugar industry's rapid growth after 1837, the authors argue, sugar interests determined where railroads would be built and who would benefit from them. Zanetti and Garcia explore the implications of this symbiotic relationship for the technological development of the railroads, the economic evolution of Cuba, and the lives of the railroad workers. As this work shows, the economic benefits that accompanied the rise of railroads in Europe and the United States were not repeated in Cuba. Sugar and Railroads provides a poignant demonstration of the fact that technological progress alone is far from sufficient for development.

Book Bulletin of the International Railway Congress

Download or read book Bulletin of the International Railway Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Women into the Borderlands

Download or read book Working Women into the Borderlands written by Sonia Hernández and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women’s work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts’ labor in industries which were historically male-dominated. As Hernández reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain their “proper” place in society, and work environments were in fact gendered and class-based. Yet, these prescribed notions of class and gender were frequently challenged as women sought to improve their livelihoods by using everyday forms of negotiation including collective organizing, labor arbitration boards, letter writing, creating unions, assuming positions of confianza (“trustworthiness”), and by migrating to urban centers and/or crossing into Texas. Drawing extensively on bi-national archival sources, newspapers, and published records, Working Women into the Borderlands demonstrates convincingly how women’s labor contributions shaped the development of one of the most dynamic and contentious borderlands in the globe.

Book History of Technology Volume 34

Download or read book History of Technology Volume 34 written by Ian Inkster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic. This is the first English-language volume to bring together a variety of critical perspectives on the history of technology in Latin America from the early-19th century through to the present day. This special issue, assembled by guest editor David Pretel, brings together a range of experts to explore a plethora of topics in Latin America's technological history. Papers include a study of rural telephony in in 20th-century Latin America; the rise of the 'Techno-class' in modern Brazil; an analysis of the rise and fall of three Caribbean commodities; the history of educational technology in Latin America, and science and technology in Cold War Chile. Special Issue: Technology in Latin American History Edited by David Pretel (Colegio de Mexico, Mexico) and Helge Wendt (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Germany)

Book Bulletin of the International Railway Association

Download or read book Bulletin of the International Railway Association written by International Railway Association and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

Download or read book The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery written by Daniel Rood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows how, at a moment of crisis after the Age of Revolutions, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil forged a new set of relationships with one another to sidestep the financial dominance of Great Britain and the northeastern United States. They hired a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other "plantation experts" to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit "tropical" needs and maintain profitability. These experts depended on the know-how of slaves alongside whom they worked. Bondspeople with industrial craft skills played key roles in the development of new production technologies like sugar mills. While the very existence of skilled enslaved workers contradicted the racial ideologies underpinning slavery and allowed black people to wield new kinds of authority within the plantation world, their contributions reinforced the economic dynamism of the slave economies of Cuba, Brazil, and the Upper South. When separate wars broke out in all three locations in the 1860s, the transnational bloc of masters and experts took up arms to perpetuate the Greater Caribbean they had built throughout the 1840s and 1850s. Slaves played key wartime roles on the opposing side, helping put an end to chattel slavery. However, the worldwide racial division of labor that emerged from the reinvented plantation complex has proved more durable.

Book Cuba

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  • Author : Gonzalo de Quesada
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 623 pages

Download or read book Cuba written by Gonzalo de Quesada and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuba

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  • Author : Pan American Union
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Cuba written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Bulletin

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  • Author : University of Santo Tomás
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book General Bulletin written by University of Santo Tomás and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book G  ia del Espa  ol en Londres  With a map

Download or read book G ia del Espa ol en Londres With a map written by E. PRIETO and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: