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Author :Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. Publisher :Railroads Past and Present ISBN 13 :9780253060297 Total Pages :352 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (62 download)
Book Synopsis Narrow Gauge in the Tropics by : Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr.
Download or read book Narrow Gauge in the Tropics written by Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. and published by Railroads Past and Present. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrow Gauge in the Tropics is the first comprehensive history of railways and tramways in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) from breaking ground in 1864 to the invasion of the Japanese during World War II. During the mid-19th century under colonial rule, the Dutch East Indies experienced enormous increases in production of sugar, coffee, and other commodities, resulting in a great dilemma: How were these goods to be moved to port when wagons hauled by animals was the only available form of transportation? The solution was to build a railway network through some of the most challenging terrain on the planet. Lavishly illustrated, Narrow Gauge in the Tropics explores technical aspects of the construction of the railways over difficult terrain, the origin of the technicians who made the seemingly impossible happen, and the social impact of the railways on the indigenous population.
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the American Geographical Society by : American Geographical Society of New York
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Images of the Tropics by : Susie Protschky
Download or read book Images of the Tropics written by Susie Protschky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe. Surveying a rich visual culture developed over a period of some 350 years of Dutch colonial engagement with Indonesia Susie Protschky demonstrates how views of the archipelago’s environment were far from simple topographical souvenirs. Rather, this book reveals how images of the tropics visually articulated colonial attempts to legitimize and historicize what were in fact continually changing and contested claims to Dutch territorial sovereignty in the Indies. Further, colonial images of nature were routinely inflected with diverse cultural preoccupations, among them the constitution of gender, class and racial boundaries in Indies society; the tenor of sexual mores in the tropics; and the political role of religion in the archipelago. Landscape art thus indexed colonial views on a range of pressing social and political concerns.
Book Synopsis In the Trades, the tropics & the roaring forties. Popular ed by : Annie baroness Brassey
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Book Synopsis The Tropics; Their Resources, People and Future by : Charles Reginald Enock
Download or read book The Tropics; Their Resources, People and Future written by Charles Reginald Enock and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape by : Nigel Stork
Download or read book Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape written by Nigel Stork and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a wealth of scientific findings andecological knowledge to survey what we have learned about the“Wet Tropics” rainforests of North Queensland,Australia. This interdisciplinary text is the first book to providesuch a holistic view of any tropical forest environment, includingthe social and economic dimensions. The most thorough assessment of a tropical forest landscape todate Explores significant scientific breakthroughs in areasincluding conservation genetics, vegetation modeling, agroforestryand revegetation techniques, biodiversity assessment and modeling,impacts of climate change, and the integration of science innatural resource management Research achieved, in part, due to the Cooperative ResearchCentre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (theRainforest CRC) Written by a number of distinguished internationalexperts contains chapter summaries and section commentaries
Book Synopsis Black Diamonds from the Treasure State by : Robert A. Schalla
Download or read book Black Diamonds from the Treasure State written by Robert A. Schalla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th century, railroads played a crucial role in the development of Montana's economy. Robert A. Schalla examines early efforts to bring rail transport to the New World Mining District near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park and Red Lodge–Bear Creek Coal Field in south-central Montana. The saga began with a chance discovery in 1866 and follows the exploits of individuals who worked to bring rail transport to the mines of southern Montana. Starting with Northern Pacific's unsuccessful efforts to build a railroad through Yellowstone, this story follows the struggles of various privately financed schemes to develop the vast mineral wealth of these two regions. A youthful entrepreneur from Milwaukee succeeded in financing a railroad to the coal fields, but his plan to extend the line to the national park runs afoul of Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, who was determined to drive him out of business. The story dives into the motivations and background of these individuals and their ultimate triumphs and failures. The completion of the Montana, Wyoming & Southern Railroad (MW&S) in 1906 resulted in the creation of three new towns and six separate mining operations. The MW&S was one of the few privately owned lines in Montana that, despite forces aligned against it, maintained its independence until it was abandoned. For nearly fifty years it formed an important part of the state's economy as the Bear Creek mines supplied private, commercial, and industrial consumers with some of the highest-quality coal in the state.
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Book Synopsis Journal by : Institute of Transport (London, England)
Download or read book Journal written by Institute of Transport (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York by : American Geographical Society of New York
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pennsylvania Railroad by : Albert J. Churella
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad written by Albert J. Churella and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1933, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been in existence for nearly ninety years. During this time, it had grown from a small line, struggling to build west from the state capital in Harrisburg, to the dominant transportation company in the United States. In Volume 2 of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Albert J. Churella continues his history of this giant of American transportation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the world's largest business corporation and the nation's most important railroad. By 1917, the Pennsylvania Railroad, like the nation itself, was confronting a very different world. The war that had consumed Europe since 1914 was about to engulf the United States. Amid unprecedented demand for transportation, the federal government undertook the management of the railroads, while new labor policies and new regulatory initiatives, coupled with a postwar recession, would challenge the company like never before. Only time would tell whether the years that followed would signal a new beginning for the Pennsylvania Railroad or the beginning of the end. The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Age of Limits, 1917-1933, represents an unparalleled look at the history, the personalities, and the technologies of this iconic American company in a period that marked the shift from building an empire to exploring the limits of their power.
Book Synopsis The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa by : Sir Frederick Dealtry Lugard
Download or read book The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa written by Sir Frederick Dealtry Lugard and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army (including the Reports of the Isthmian Canal Commissions, (1899-1914) 1866-1912 ... by : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Download or read book Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army (including the Reports of the Isthmian Canal Commissions, (1899-1914) 1866-1912 ... written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa by : Frederick John Dealtry Baron Lugard
Download or read book The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa written by Frederick John Dealtry Baron Lugard and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Panama Railroad written by Peter Pyne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.
Book Synopsis The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa by : Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard
Download or read book The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa written by Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the historical and international aspects of colonial rule in Africa.
