Download or read book Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads 1800 1890 written by Carter Goodrich and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1974-11-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Ownership of Railroads written by Otto H. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroads and American Political Development written by Zachary Callen and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would demand—a demand that became ever clearer as the power and importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide rail network, it also became clear, far exceeded the resources of state and local government and private industry. The consequences, as seen in this book, amounted to state building from the ground up. In Railroads and American Political Development Zachary Callen tells the story of the federal government's role in developing a national rail system—and the rail system's role in expanding the power of the federal government. The book reveals how state building, so often attributed to an aggressive national government, can also result from local governments making demands on the national state—a dynamic that can still be seen at work every time the US Congress takes up a transportation bill. Though many states invested in their local railroads, and many quite successfully, others were less willing or less capable—so rail development necessarily became a federal concern. Railroads and American Political Development shows how this led to the Land Grant Act of 1850, a crucial piece of legislation in the building of both the nation's infrastructure and the American state. Chronicling how this previously local issue migrated to the federal state, and how federal action then altered American rail planning, the book offers a new perspective on the exact nature of federalism. In the case of rail development, we see how state governments factor into the American state building process, and how, in turn, the separation of powers at the federal level shaped that process. The result is a fresh view of the development of the American rail system, as well as a clearer picture of the pressures and political logic that have altered and expanded the reach of American federalism.

Download or read book Railroads and Government written by Frank Haigh Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Select List of References on Government Ownership of Railroads written by Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Regulation of Railways written by Samuel Orace Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Railroads written by William James Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Government and the Railroads written by Otto H. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Consolidation of the Railways of the United States written by George Henry Lewis and published by New-York, Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1893 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Should the United States Government Own and Operate the Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Argument Against Government Ownership of the Railroads written by Lewis Warrington Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Regulation of Inter state Railroads by the National Government written by Robert P Harlow and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Partnership in Railroads written by Mark Wymond and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Ownership of Railroads written by Edwin Du Bois Shurter and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.

Download or read book Government Ownership of Railroads and War Taxation written by Otto H. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: