Author: Western Rail-Road CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Annual Report of the Directors of the Western Rail-Road Corporation to the Stockholders, Presented ...
Author: Western Rail-Road CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
... Annual Report of the Directors of the Western Railroad Corporation, to the Stockholders ...
Author: Western Rail-Road CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The American Transportation Revolution
Author: Aaron W. MarrsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"This book highlights the rich social and cultural history of the transportation revolution"--
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
Annual Report, Norfolk and Western Railway Company ...
Author: Norfolk and Western Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.).
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
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