Author: Durward T. StokesPublisher: Blair
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Company Shops, the Town Built by a Railroad
Author: Durward T. StokesPublisher: Blair
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People 1840–1914
Author: Diane K. DrummondPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351947699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe. This archetypal railway town was built on a green-field site by a railway company in 1842-3. It was a major junction, an administrative centre and an important manufacturing centre. Thus it provides an ideal arena in which to study the relationship between company and people and the effects of this claustrophobic association on emerging economic and social structure and politics in the era of large-scale development and modernisation in Europe and America. Dianne Drummond applies the full range of modern urban-historical approaches in this work. It is a shining example of the ways in which new techniques in research, analysis and comparison can redraw the best-known histories. It will be essential reading for urban historians.
Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. BlackmonPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1848314132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Industrial Development and Manufacturers' Record
Author: History of Randolph County, Indiana
Author: E. TuckerJournal of Railway Appliances and Railway Price Current
Author: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Author: Stephen Dow BeckhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Author: Tramway and Railway World
Author: Enemies of the Country
Author: John C. InscoePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820326607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Exploring family and community dynamics, Enemies of the Country profiles men and women of the Confederate states who, in addition to the wartime burdens endured by most southerners, had to cope with being a detested minority. With one exception, these featured individuals were white, but they otherwise represent a wide spectrum of the southern citizenry. They include natives to the region, foreign immigrants and northern transplants, affluent and poor, farmers and merchants, politicians and journalists, slaveholders and nonslaveholders. Some resided in highland areas and in remote parts of border states, the two locales with which southern Unionists are commonly associated. Others, however, lived in the Deep South and in urban settings. Some were openly defiant; others took a more covert stand. Together the portraits underscore how varied Unionist identities and motives were, and how fluid and often fragile the personal, familial, and local circumstances of Unionist allegiance could be. For example, many southern Unionists shared basic social and political assumptions with white southerners who cast their lots with the Confederacy, including an abhorrence of emancipation. The very human stories of southern Unionists--as they saw themselves and as their neighbors saw them--are shown here to be far more complex and colorful than previously acknowledged.