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Semi Annual Report To The Stockholders Of The South Carolina Canal And Rail Road Company
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Book Synopsis Semi-annual Report of the Direction of the South-Carolina Canal and Rail-Road Company, to the Stockholders ... by : South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company
Download or read book Semi-annual Report of the Direction of the South-Carolina Canal and Rail-Road Company, to the Stockholders ... written by South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Semi-annual Report to the President and Directors of the South-Carolina Canal and Rail-Road Company by Their Committee of Inquiry by : South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company
Download or read book Semi-annual Report to the President and Directors of the South-Carolina Canal and Rail-Road Company by Their Committee of Inquiry written by South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroads in the Old South by : Aaron W. Marrs
Download or read book Railroads in the Old South written by Aaron W. Marrs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. -- Dr. Owen Brown and Dr. Gale E. Gibson
Book Synopsis Planting a Capitalist South by : Tom Downey
Download or read book Planting a Capitalist South written by Tom Downey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a pathbreaking book, well grounded in the appropriate documentary record. Downey makes especially good use of the reports of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company and of other corporations, which are so tedious to read, to offer an exciting and fresh perspective on an old problem of vital importance, the relationship between businessmen and planters in the Old South" -- American Historical Review "Downey's book has many merits. First of all, it successfully presents a comprehensive and harmonious picture of the development of the region. Second, it helps to better define the contours of the long misunderstood southern political economy and its transformations during the latter part of the antebellum era. It is indeed a well-written and well-thought piece of historiography showing in microcosm how a new synthesis of antebellum southern history should be conceived." -- Enterprise and SocietyIn Planting a Capitalist South, Tom Downey effectively challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated political economy of the Old South. By analyzing the interplay of planters, merchants, and manufacturers, Downey characterizes the South as a sphere of contending types of capitalists: agrarians with land and slaves versus commercial and industrial owners of banks, railroads, stores, and factories. His book focuses on the central Savannah River Valley of western South Carolina, an influential political and economic region and the home of some of the South's leading states' rights and proslavery ideologues; which also spawned a number of inland commercial towns, one of the nation's first railroads, and a robust wage-labor community. As such, western South Carolina provides a unique opportunity for looking at contrasting economic forces but solely within the boundaries of the South -- slavery vs. free labor, industrial vs. agricultural, urban vs. rural. A revisionary study, Planting a Capitalist South offers clear evidence of a burgeoning transition to capitalist society in the Old South. "Downey's book is a welcome new addition to the growing corpus of studies seeking to understand the lives of white merchants and manufacturers. Well written and researched, Downey's excellent work will add greater nuance to our picture of the social and economic life of the Old South, particularly our picture of the emerging southern middle class." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly"Planting a Capitalist South makes several important contributions. The idea that commerce and industry challenged tenets of republican ideology may be a familiar one, but Downey pursues it in directions seldom explored by previous historians of the Old South, examining conflicts over issue like railroad routes, water rights, and the power of town governments. Moreover, he links those subjects to historians' debates about the capitalist character of the region, and he stakes out an innovative position with his argument that the late antebellum South was in the midst of a transition to capitalism." -- Business History Review
Download or read book American Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 2108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index to the Library of the American Society of Civil Engineers by : American Society of Civil Engineers. Library
Download or read book Index to the Library of the American Society of Civil Engineers written by American Society of Civil Engineers. Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers by : American Society of Civil Engineers
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
Book Synopsis Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer by :
Download or read book Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Engineer and Railroad Journal by :
Download or read book American Engineer and Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Railroad Journal and Mechanics' Magazine by :
Download or read book American Railroad Journal and Mechanics' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Engineer, Car Builder and Railroad Journal by :
Download or read book American Engineer, Car Builder and Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Railroad Journal, and Advocate of Internal Improvements by :
Download or read book American Railroad Journal, and Advocate of Internal Improvements written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Locomotives and Cars written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mastered by the Clock by : Mark M. Smith
Download or read book Mastered by the Clock written by Mark M. Smith and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival sources, Smith demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s. Influenced by colonial merchants' fascination with time thrift, by a long-held familiarity with urban, public time, by the transport and market revolution in the South, and by their own qualified embrace of modernity, slaveowners began to purchase timepieces in growing numbers, adopting a clock-based conception of time and attempting in turn to instill a similar consciousness in their slaves. But, forbidden to own watches themselves, slaves did not internalize this idea to the same degree as their masters, and slaveholders found themselves dependent as much on the whip as on the clock when enforcing slaves' obedience to time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.
Book Synopsis The Web of Progress by : William H. Pease
Download or read book The Web of Progress written by William H. Pease and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridgement of Stedman's containing some 30,000 entries with pronunciation, etymology and definitions adequate to the uses of the lay and professional reader/writer. No illustrations. The Oxford UP edition (of which this is a reprint) was winner of the 1986 New England Historical Association Book Award. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road by : H. Roger Grant
Download or read book The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then came the Panic of 1837, and the project came to a halt. H. Roger Grant tells the incredible story of this singular example of "railroad fever" and the remarkable visionaries whose hopes for connecting North and South would require more than half a century—and one Civil War—to reach fruition.
