Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Virginia State Library Publications
Author: More Confederate Imprints
Author: Richard Barksdale HarwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Confederate Imprints
Author: T. Michael ParrishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library: June 1900-December 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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
Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Catalogue of the Library ... December 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Catalog of the Library: Accessions from June, 1900, to December, 1902
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Railroad Gazette
Author: A Bibliography of Virginia
Author: Earl Gregg SwemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description