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Download or read book Railroad Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Colson Whitehead
Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Book Synopsis The Railway Journey by : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
Book Synopsis Notes on Railroad Accidents by : Charles Francis Adams
Download or read book Notes on Railroad Accidents written by Charles Francis Adams and published by New York : Putnam [1879]. This book was released on 1879 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railroad Trainman written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on the American Reports [1869-1887] by : Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company
Download or read book Notes on the American Reports [1869-1887] written by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on Railroad Engineering for Use in the College of Civil Engineering, Cornell University by : Charles Lee Crandall
Download or read book Notes on Railroad Engineering for Use in the College of Civil Engineering, Cornell University written by Charles Lee Crandall and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroad Economics. Or, Notes, with Comments from a Tour Over Ohio Railways Under the Hon. H. Sabine, Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs by : Stillman Williams Robinson
Download or read book Railroad Economics. Or, Notes, with Comments from a Tour Over Ohio Railways Under the Hon. H. Sabine, Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs written by Stillman Williams Robinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The American Railway Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroad Economics by : Stillman Williams Robinson
Download or read book Railroad Economics written by Stillman Williams Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Engineer, Car Builder and Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroad Notes by : Charles Barnard Fox
Download or read book Railroad Notes written by Charles Barnard Fox and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Railroad Reorganization by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Download or read book Railroad Reorganization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 6. Considers legislation to enable debtor railroad corporations to reorganize their financial structure without any or further procedures under the Bankruptcy Act.
Book Synopsis The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 by : Albert J. Churella
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Age Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: