Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Richard White
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393342379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Author: Joseph Nimmo
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Albert Shaw
Publisher: Columbia University Lectures
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Presents a series of lectures from an introductory course intended to give some analysis of the nature of politics in American life and the struggles of the American people to realize national unity.

Author: Manu Karuka
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520296648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: K. Austin Kerr
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822975696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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This book examines the concern of a variety of interest groups with federal policy toward railroads, concentrating on the crucial years during World War I when the federal government ran the industry, and prior to the passage of the Transportation Act of 1920. Through extensive archival research, James A. Kerr describes the political dealings among those involved in railroad-government relations: labor leaders; shippers; railroad executives; and financiers; and analyzes the motivations that influenced policymaking.

Author: Gabriel Kolko
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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