Download or read book Report of the International American Conference Relative to an Intercontinental Railway Line written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longest Line on the Map written by Eric Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
Download or read book Reports and Recommendations Together with the Messages of the President and the Letters of the Secretary of State Transmitting the Same to Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the United States Senate written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracks Across Continents Paths Through History written by Douglas J. Puffert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Documents written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Economics written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics and published by Chicago, University Press [1912]. This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports and Recommendations written by International American Conference and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncle Sam s Policemen written by Katherine Unterman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary rendition—the practice of abducting criminal suspects in locations around the world—has been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of U.S. police powers. But America’s aggressive pursuit of fugitives beyond its borders far predates the global war on terror. Uncle Sam’s Policemen investigates the history of international manhunts, arguing that the extension of U.S. law enforcement into foreign jurisdictions at the turn of the twentieth century forms an important chapter in the story of American empire. In the late 1800s, expanding networks of railroads and steamships made it increasingly easy for criminals to evade justice. Recognizing that domestic law and order depended on projecting legal authority abroad, President Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1903 that the United States would “leave no place on earth” for criminals to hide. Charting the rapid growth of extradition law, Katherine Unterman shows that the United States had fifty-eight treaties with thirty-six nations by 1900—more than any other country. American diplomats put pressure on countries that served as extradition havens, particularly in Latin America, and cloak-and-dagger tactics such as the kidnapping of fugitives by Pinkerton detectives were fair game—a practice explicitly condoned by the U.S. Supreme Court. The most wanted fugitives of this period were not anarchists and political agitators but embezzlers and defrauders—criminals who threatened the emerging corporate capitalist order. By the early twentieth century, the long arm of American law stretched around the globe, creating an informal empire that complemented both military and economic might.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Department of Justice to September 1 1904 written by United States. Dept. of Justice. Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sources of Information on Military Information a Classified List of Books and Publication November 10 1897 written by United States. Military Information Division. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
