Author: Jonathan KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Communication from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Author: Jonathan KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Author: Ralf RothPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000591220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world. Since its inception, cities have played a significant role in the railway system; cities were among the main reasons for building such efficient but lavish and costly modes of transport for persons, goods, and information. They also influenced the technological appearance of railways as these have had to meet particular demands for transport in urban areas. In 25 essays, this volume demonstrates that the relationship between the city and the railway is one of the most publicly debated themes in the context of daily lives in growing urban settings, as well as in the second urbanisation of the global South with migration from rural to urban landscapes. The volume’s broad geographical range includes discussions of railway networks, railway stations, and urban rails in countries such as India, Japan, England, Belgium, Romania, Nigeria, the USA, and Mexico. The City and the Railway in the World will be a useful tool for scholars interested in the history of transport, travel, and urban change.
Journal of Proceedings of the First Branch City Council of Baltimore at the Sessions of ...
Author: Baltimore (Md.). City Council. First BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Baltimore
Author: Matthew A. CrensonPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421436337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
How politics and race shaped Baltimore's distinctive disarray of cultures and subcultures. Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimoreans—and the entire nation—to focus critically on the rich and tangled narrative of black–white relations in Baltimore, where slavery once existed alongside the largest community of free blacks in the United States. Matthew A. Crenson, a distinguished political scientist and Baltimore native, examines the role of politics and race throughout Baltimore's history. From its founding in 1729 up through the recent past, Crenson follows Baltimore's political evolution from an empty expanse of marsh and hills to a complicated city with distinct ways of doing business. Revealing how residents at large engage (and disengage) with one another across an expansive agenda of issues and conflicts, Crenson shows how politics helped form this complex city's personality. Crenson provocatively argues that Baltimore's many quirks are likely symptoms of urban underdevelopment. The city's longtime domination by the general assembly—and the corresponding weakness of its municipal authority—forced residents to adopt the private and extra-governmental institutions that shaped early Baltimore. On the one hand, Baltimore was resolutely parochial, split by curious political quarrels over issues as minor as loose pigs. On the other, it was keenly attuned to national politics: during the Revolution, for instance, Baltimoreans were known for their comparative radicalism. Crenson describes how, as Baltimore and the nation grew, whites competed with blacks, slave and free, for menial and low-skill work. He also explores how the urban elite thrived by avoiding, wherever possible, questions of slavery versus freedom—just as wealthier Baltimoreans, long after the Civil War and emancipation, preferred to sidestep racial controversy. Peering into the city's 300-odd neighborhoods, this fascinating account holds up a mirror to Baltimore, asking whites in particular to reexamine the past and accept due responsibility for future racial progress.
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Author: Niles' National Register
Author: Hezekiah NilesAmerican Railroad Journal
Author: Niles' Weekly Register ...
Author: Hezekiah NilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Construction of Ante-bellum Railroads in the East
Author: Frank Williams PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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