Author: Albert FishlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Antebellum Economy
Author: Albert FishlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674028500
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
Author: Sung Jae KohRailroads and American Economic Growth
Author: Robert William FogelPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Railroads in the Old South
Author: Aaron W. MarrsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. -- Dr. Owen Brown and Dr. Gale E. Gibson
American Railroad Economics
Author: Aaron Morton SakolskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Travel on Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828-1860
Author: Eugene AlvarezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Travel on Southern Antebellum Railroads yields a rich gathering of Southern lore about Jacksonian democracy, foreigners' reactions to the Southern scene, the segregation of women and Negroes, the development of safety devices, the nature and condition of stations and waiting rooms, and the marveling interest of European travelers in that most typically American of railroading inventions--the cowcatcher. At the same time, the author does not slight the spectacular and indeed unparalleled growth of rail travel in the South and throughout the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century, and the enormous changes that rapid transit worked in life styles and in the American economy. Here is fascinating information about early transportation technology and economics, presented in a delightfully pleasant form.
War History of American Railroads
Author: Walker Downer HinesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258509736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Railroads in the Old South
Author: Aaron W. MarrsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898455
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An original history of the railroad in the Old South that challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners’ pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. “The time is right to bring the South into the story of the economic transformation of antebellum America. Aaron Marrs does this with force and grace in Railroads in the Old South.” —John L. Larson, Purdue University “I am hard pressed to think of another volume that better catches the overall effect railroads had on the Old South.” —Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University “Interesting regional history . . . It is a thoughtful and instructive study that examines not only the pervasiveness of transportation but also some of the social, political, and economic consequences associated with the evolution of southern railroads.” —Choice
Passage to Union
Author: Sarah GordonPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Conflicts of interest - at local, state, and regional levels - characterized railroad growth at every stage. Despite the stated aims of government and the railroad corporations to promote settlement and commerce, Ms. Gordon shows that the states lost control of these enterprises and lost the economic benefits of their traffic. Smaller towns withered as people and money flowed to larger cities. By 1900 the union that had emerged reflected the worst fears of railroad critics.