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Author : United States
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Interstate Commerce Act written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard White
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393342379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Railroaded written by Richard White and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard D. Stone
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Railroad Industry written by Richard D. Stone and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-12-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the philosophy, actions, and policies of the Interstate Commerce Commission by focusing on the development of its railroad regulation practices, particularly since 1976. Richard Stone traces the radical change in the ICC's view of the rail industry, from the maximum control it exercised for many years through the unilateral deregulation that was begun in 1978. He considers the forces and pressures that contributed to the Commission's actions, including Congress, the president, the railroads, rail shippers, and academicians. The book begins with two chapters that survey the history of the ICC and rail regulation through the mid-1970s. Stone then turns to the events of 1976, when the seeds of deregulation were sown with the election of Jimmy Carter and the passage of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform (4R) Act. Subsequent chapters cover the years between the 4R Act and the Staggers Act, which were characterized by the Commission's changing attitude toward rail regulation; the background and provisions of the 1980 Staggers Act and the events that followed it; and the recent events and changes in philosophy that have taken place at the ICC with regard to the rail industry. This study, the first to be published on the ICC since 1976, follows that body's transformation from a powerful independent commission to a much smaller and less influential institution. The work will be a valuable resource for students of public policy, transportation studies, and political science.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Railroad Maps of the United States written by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1975 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391802
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 1886 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book U.S. History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Illinois. Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Railroad and Warehouse Commission and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James W. Ely, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700611444
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Railroads and American Law written by James W. Ely, Jr. and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Author : United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States written by United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Classification of Freight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graydon M. Meints
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611860856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Railroads for Michigan written by Graydon M. Meints and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. The railroad would come to play a role in almost every critical event in Michigan's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, before beginning to wane following the arrival of the automobile. Looking ahead to the future of the railroad in the Great Lakes region, Meints assesses the strengths and shortcomings of this revolutionary invention.
Author : Martin Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605502669
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Everything American Presidents Book written by Martin Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everything American Presidents Book is an excellent source of information about each of the forty-three men who have served as chief executive of the United States. This exhaustive guide provides you with all you need to know about this country's leaders, including: Their early childhood and formative years The effect of the office on wives and children The triumphs and tragedies that shaped them The legacy of each man's term in office Written in an entertaining style by two experienced educators, this fun and informative guide is packed with facts and details about the life and times of each president and the major events that shaped his term. The Everything American Presidents Book has everything you need to know about the fascinating men who shaped U.S. history and policy.
Author : Charlton Ogburn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railroads written by Charlton Ogburn and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical account of the growth of the railroad and it's influence on American history.
Author : Lawrence Lewis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The American and English Railroad Cases written by Lawrence Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The State and the Railroads written by Chauncey Mitchell Depew and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Statistics of the Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
