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Author : Charles B. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Rail written by Charles B. George and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Spiritual Rostrum written by Warren Chase and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles B. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Rail written by Charles B. George and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Granville Stuart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293205
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Frontier as Seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart, Gold-miner, Trader, Merchant, Rancher and Politician written by Granville Stuart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stuart's edited reminiscences are an account of pioneering, prospecting, and community building in the northern Rockies and Great Plains."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : M. Philips Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000508501
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Russia Forty Years On written by M. Philips Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1961 Russia Forty Years On presents a comparative overview of Russian history from the Tsarist days to the Stalin Era. Morgan Philips Price looks back on Russia over a period of fifty years - the Tsarist time, the First World War, the October Revolution, and the time of Stalin; and describes his last visit there in the autumn of 1959. Though the book is mainly about Russia there are two chapters at the end about Germany and especially about that part which was under Russian influence. Having seen Russian Communism in its homeland, author compares it with what can be seen of it in Central Europe. This book will be an interesting read for scholars and researchers of Russian history, Communist history, and European history.
Author : Terry Cox
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0714643092
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Hungary 1956--forty Years on written by Terry Cox and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new articles offers a retrospective view of the events of the 1956 revolution in Hungary, the consequences they have had for Hungary's political development since, and the significance of 1956 in current Hungarian politics. Different articles draw on the findings of various kinds of research, including work in documentary and archival collections that have only recently been opened up, sociological survey research, and in some cases, on personal reminiscences as well.
Author : Theresa Ann Case
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443401
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor written by Theresa Ann Case and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887061738
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Life and Labor written by Charles Stephenson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and Labor brings together the most stimulating scholarship in the field of labor history today. Its fifteen essays explore the impact of industrialization and technology on the lives of working people and their responses to the changes in society over the past one-hundred-fifty years. Focusing on the everyday life of working-class Americans, it discusses such topics as production technology, occupational mobility, industrial violence, working women, resistance to exploitation, fraternal organizations, and social and leisure-time activities. The essays are written in a lively manner accessible to an undergraduate audience and also provide insights and a solid background for graduate students and scholars in the field of American labor and social history. The book presents the work of members of the generation of labor and social historians who matured in the 1970s and who are now establishing themselves as leaders in their fields.
Author : Wilfred T. Grenfell
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Forty Years for Labrador written by Wilfred T. Grenfell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forty Years for Labrador" by Wilfred T. Grenfell is a memoir in which the author tells the story of his life in Labrador. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland where he fell in love with the ambiance and the people who call this part of Canada home. This book, in fact, discusses some of the patients and citizens he interacted with while operating his practice.
Author : Amy G. Richter
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080787647X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Home on the Rails written by Amy G. Richter and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm--a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove to make themselves "at home." Through efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad car decor to advertising images celebrating female travelers and legal cases sanctioning gender-segregated spaces, travelers and railroad companies transformed the railroad from a place of risk and almost unlimited social mixing into one in which white men and women alleviated the stress of unpleasant social contact. Making themselves "at home" aboard the trains, white men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.
Author : Stephen Spignesi
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642933287
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Elton John: Fifty Years On written by Stephen Spignesi and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can count on one hand the musical legends equal to Elton John (the Beatles and the Rolling Stones each get a finger). Elton John: Fifty Years On looks at the impact songwriting partners Elton John and Bernie Taupin have had on popular music and culture, and also discusses every song on all thirty albums, plus his work on Broadway, in movies, and elsewhere. • Part 1 is a bullet-pointed look at every released song, complete with insights, trivia, and meanings, including musical insights—like Elton’s favorite chord progressions, or the most notable melodies in his discography. • Part 2 is a collection of essays and interviews with musicians and music writers chatting about Elton and Bernie. Did you know? · Elton and Bernie’s revision of “Candle in the Wind” (known as “Goodbye England’s Rose”), a tribute to Princess Diana after her untimely death, is the biggest-selling single in the UK and the second-biggest selling single in music history (after Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”). · “Tiny Dancer” may or may not be about Bernie Taupin’s wife, Maxine…quotes from Elton and Bernie contradict each other. · The biggest music stars in the world routinely show up at Elton John concerts to sing duets with the Rocket Man, including Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, George Michael, Bruce Hornsby, Lionel Richie, Mary J. Blige, Bryan Adams, Demi Lovato, Shawn Mendes, and many more, as well as Elton’s legendary “dual” shows with Billy Joel · The background vocals for the song “White Lady White Powder” on the 21 at 33 album are sung by the Eagles. · The background vocals for the song “Cage the Songbird” on the Blue Moves album are sung by Graham Nash and David Crosby. (Stephen Stills must have been busy?) Elton John: Fifty Years On was written for ultimate Elton John fans. A browsing book, a reading book, a treasure trove of facts, trivia, insights, and commentary, it’s the perfect companion to Elton leaving the Yellow Brick Road.
Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889073
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Death Rode the Rails written by Mark Aldrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Author : Walter Licht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855845
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Working for the Railroad written by Walter Licht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Licht chronicles the working and personal lives of the first two generations of American railwaymen, the first workers in America to enter large-scale, bureaucratically managed, corporately owned work organizations. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Richard Reinhardt
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135250
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Workin' on the Railroad written by Richard Reinhardt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The mighty railroad occupied the undisputed center of American public life. The railroad founded cities, populated states, created governments, destroyed the wilderness. It was the great speculator, the political tyrant, the recruiter of immigrants, the opener of new lands, the cynosure of poets and pioneers, the symbol of adventure, opportunity, escape, and power. . . . Yet, the railroad man, for all his historic importance, his archetypal stature, and his economic power, has achieved only a minor position in American literature.”--from Workin’ on the Railroad In Workin’ on the Railroad, Richard Reinhardt presents firsthand accounts from engineers, brakemen, porters, conductors, section men, roundhouse workers, switchmen, telegraphers, surveyors, and other neglected pioneers who worked the railroad during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Age of Steam.
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019125
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Iron Road in the Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
Author : James Henry Cook
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806117614
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman written by James Henry Cook and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.
Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195160963
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Down & Out, on the Road written by Kenneth L. Kusmer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A definitive history of homelessness in the United States..." -- page 4 of cover.
