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Author: Lloyd J. Mercer Publisher: Beard Books ISBN: 9781587981548 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency.
Author: Lloyd J. Mercer Publisher: Beard Books ISBN: 9781587981548 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency.
Author: Lloyd J. Mercer Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 1483257991 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention attempts to replace a major part of the railroad land grant legend (according to which the granting of federal and state land to private railroad firms benefitted these firms more than it contributed to society as a whole) with some real numbers and analysis. An attempt is made to put the income and wealth distribution impact of the railroad land grants in perspective, but thorough analysis of this issue is not undertaken. The primary question this study does try to illuminate is that of the effect of the railroad land grants on economic efficiency. This emphasis was chosen because it seems clear that improvement of economic efficiency was the major goal that Congress and various state legislatures sought to attain, and thus the examination of economic efficiency questions is fundamental to evaluation of railroad land grant policy. This study will not completely replace the railroad land grant legend (because much is not covered here), but it does represent a considerable diminution of that legend.
Author: Christian Wolmar Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1610391802 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Author: Maria E. Montoya Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520227441 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 334
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Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land.
Author: The National Archives Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198042272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.
Author: Lloyd J. Mercer
Author: Lloyd J. Mercer
Author: Lloyd J. Mercer
Author: Eric D. Olmanson
Author: Robert E. Shannon
Author: United States. Quartermaster General of the Army
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Christian Wolmar
Author: United States
Author: Maria E. Montoya
Author: The National Archives