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Download or read book Railroad Stations written by David Naylor and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs, archival plans, and maps documents the history and architecture of railroad stations.
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroad Nation by : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Download or read book Railroad Nation written by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2025-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From passenger tickets, wall calendars, and advertising posters to train orders and bills of lading, railroads have left a colorful paper trail across America. In Railroad Nation, historian Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes examines a fascinating array of these materials, showcasing the railroad industry's incredible variety of eye-catching illustrations to enliven their timetables and promotional brochures. Schwantes traces the evolution of railroad commercial art from drab black-and-white broadsides and text-only advertisements that the early railroads placed in local newspapers to the riotous mélange of color graphics in the early twentieth century, when the visual appeal of public timetables and their thousands of different brochures enticed settlers to create farms, ranches, and towns alongside newly laid tracks. Railroad Nation offers readers an unparalleled look at the ephemera of the railroad industry, highlighting the vibrant history of railroading in America through its rich tapestry of visual materials.
Download or read book Empire's Tracks written by Manu Karuka and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
Download or read book Builders of Our Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Jersey (States and the Nation) by : Thomas Fleming
Download or read book New Jersey (States and the Nation) written by Thomas Fleming and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984-08-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When members of the colonial assembly warned Governor Philip Carteret in 1668 that he should abandon any expectations "that things must go according to your opinions," they struck a keynote for the New Jersey experience and suggested to author Thomas Fleming what perhaps should have been the state's motto: "Divided We Stand." Ethnic diversity made New Jersey an early testing ground for the melting pot, as Yankees, Irish, Italians, and blacks strove for a chance at the good life. To many, that meant a job in the factories that made the state an industrial pioneer; to others, it meant life on the farms that made New Jersey truly the "Garden State."Mr. Fleming concludes that today New Jersey may be in the vanguard of a new American way of life, "the first metropolitan state with equally convenient access to cities and to countryside." He foresees an "equally-oriented New Jersey, honestly and efficiently governed," reminding the nation that divisiveness and acrimony can have more than one outcome. After all, New Jerseyites may have voted repeatedly for the "Boss of Bosses," Frank Hague, but they also once chose as their governor a Princeton professor named Woodrow Wilson.
Book Synopsis Builders of the Nation. the Railroad; by : Cy Warman
Download or read book Builders of the Nation. the Railroad; written by Cy Warman and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Railway Nation by : David Laurence Jones
Download or read book Railway Nation written by David Laurence Jones and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, visually engaging collection of vignettes highlighting the rich heritage of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Since its founding in 1881, Canadian Pacific has made an indelible mark on the lives of Canadians. Most commonly associated with its iconic railway, at its height CP also ran hotels, steamships, and an airline, and had myriad involvements in immigration, irrigation, resource development, war contributions, and international trade. It has been said that no other single corporation has shaped Canadian national identity as much as CP. Railway Nation: Tales of the World’s Greatest Travel System is a compilation of more than fifty thrilling and historically significant stories based on colourful anecdotes and archival sources dating back to the company's golden era. From the construction of the ground-breaking Spiral Tunnels on what was previously the most dangerous and accident-prone stretch of railway track in the Rockies, to the CPR-manufactured Valentine tanks that helped the Soviet Union fight off the Nazis in World War II, to the long and frustrating struggle of CP stewardesses fighting against sexist employment policies, this lively and nuanced portrait of an iconic company is illustrated with fascinating archival photography and will be an essential addition to any Canadian history buff's library.
Book Synopsis The American Railroad Problem by : Isaiah Leo Sharfman
Download or read book The American Railroad Problem written by Isaiah Leo Sharfman and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by : Martin W. Sandler
Download or read book Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the race of rails to link the country—and meet the men behind this incredible feat—in a riveting story about the building of the transcontinental railroad, brought to life with archival photos. In the 1850s, gold fever swept the West, but people had to walk, sail, or ride horses for months on end to seek their fortune. The question of faster, safer transportation was posed by national leaders. But with 1,800 miles of seemingly impenetrable mountains, searing deserts, and endless plains between the Missouri River and San Francisco, could a transcontinental railroad be built? It seemed impossible. Eventually, two railroad companies, the Central Pacific, which laid the tracks eastward, and the Union Pacific, which moved west, began the job. In one great race between iron men with iron wills, tens of thousands of workers blasted the longest tunnels that had ever been constructed, built the highest bridges that had ever been created, and finally linked the nation by two bands of steel, changing America forever.
Book Synopsis Workers of the Nation by : Gilson Willets
Download or read book Workers of the Nation written by Gilson Willets and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Nation of Deadbeats by : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Download or read book A Nation of Deadbeats written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these panics boiled down to one simple question: Would Americans pay their debts--or were we just a nation of deadbeats? From the merchant William Duer's attempts to speculate on post-Revolutionary War debt, to an ill-conceived 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the Panic of 1857, Scott Reynolds Nelson offers a crash course in America's worst financial disasters--and a concise explanation of the first principles that caused them all. Nelson shows how consumer debt, both at the highest levels of finance and in the everyday lives of citizens, has time and again left us unable to make good. The problem always starts with the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separate borrowers and lenders. At a certain point lenders cannot tell good loans from bad--and when chits are called in, lenders frantically try to unload the debts, hide from their own creditors, go into bankruptcy, and lobby state and federal institutions for relief. With a historian's keen observations and a storyteller's nose for character and incident, Nelson captures the entire sweep of America's financial history in all its utter irrationality: national banks funded by smugglers; fistfights in Congress over the gold standard; and presidential campaigns forged in stinging controversies on the subject of private debt. A Nation of Deadbeats is a fresh, irreverent look at Americans' addiction to debt and how it has made us what we are today.
Book Synopsis The American Nation: National problems, 1885-1897 by : Albert Bushnell Hart
Download or read book The American Nation: National problems, 1885-1897 written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History by : Patrizia Gentile
Download or read book Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History written by Patrizia Gentile and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.
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Book Synopsis Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle by : Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Minnesota Commandery
Download or read book Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle written by Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Minnesota Commandery and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nation's Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Nation: a History: Sparks, E. E. National development, 1877-1885 by : Albert Bushnell Hart
Download or read book The American Nation: a History: Sparks, E. E. National development, 1877-1885 written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
