Author: William Prescott SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857
Author: William Prescott SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 ... First Edition
Author: William Prescott SMITHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Old South's Modern Worlds
Author: L. Diane BarnesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199840962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform, cities, and industry. Considered as proponents of American manifest destiny, for example, antebellum southern politicians look more like nationalists and less like separatists. Though situated within distinct communities, Southerners'-white, black, and red-participated in and responded to movements global in scope and transformative in effect. The turmoil that changes in Asian and European agriculture wrought among southern staple producers shows the interconnections between seemingly isolated southern farms and markets in distant lands. Deprovincializing the antebellum South, The Old South's Modern Worlds illuminates a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex transformations of the nineteenth-century world.
The History of Transportation. A Bibliography ...
Author: Grace Winifred HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Steam City
Author: David SchleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
The Shelf List of the Union Theological Seminary Library in New York City
Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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
Catalogue of the Library
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977568
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description