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Book Synopsis The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 by : Donovan L. Hofsommer
Download or read book The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
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Book Synopsis Southern Pacific Passenger Trains by : Brian Solomon
Download or read book Southern Pacific Passenger Trains written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis United States Corporation Histories by : Wahib Nasrallah
Download or read book United States Corporation Histories written by Wahib Nasrallah and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. and Canadian Businesses, 1955 to 1987 by : Priscilla C. Geahigan
Download or read book U.S. and Canadian Businesses, 1955 to 1987 written by Priscilla C. Geahigan and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.
Book Synopsis Pacific Northwest Economic Base Study for Power Markets: Summary by :
Download or read book Pacific Northwest Economic Base Study for Power Markets: Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada by :
Download or read book OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada written by and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reference Book of Corporate Managements by : Dun and Bradstreet, inc
Download or read book Reference Book of Corporate Managements written by Dun and Bradstreet, inc and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Technology by : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Technology written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pacific Northwest Economic Base Study for Power Markets: Supporting studies. pt. 1. Population. pt. 2. Labor force. pt. 3. Employment. pt. 4. Personal income. pt. 5. Agriculture and food processing. pt. 6. Forest industries. pt. 7. Minerals. pt. 8. Fisheries. pt. 9. Recreation. pt. 10. Water. pt. 11. Fuels. pt. 12. Defense industries. pt. 13. Chemicals by :
Download or read book Pacific Northwest Economic Base Study for Power Markets: Supporting studies. pt. 1. Population. pt. 2. Labor force. pt. 3. Employment. pt. 4. Personal income. pt. 5. Agriculture and food processing. pt. 6. Forest industries. pt. 7. Minerals. pt. 8. Fisheries. pt. 9. Recreation. pt. 10. Water. pt. 11. Fuels. pt. 12. Defense industries. pt. 13. Chemicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Money Grew on Trees by : Greg Gordon
Download or read book When Money Grew on Trees written by Greg Gordon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals—more than the impersonal forces of political economy—shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.
Book Synopsis Extension of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Third Session, on the Extension of Time for Relinquishment by the Government of Railroads to Corporate Ownership and Control by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Download or read book Extension of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Third Session, on the Extension of Time for Relinquishment by the Government of Railroads to Corporate Ownership and Control written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Extention of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads by : United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate commerce committee
Download or read book Extention of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads written by United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate commerce committee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Thousand Blunders by : Frank Leonard
Download or read book A Thousand Blunders written by Frank Leonard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the 'Road of a Thousand Wonders' failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.
Book Synopsis North American Railroad Family Trees by : Brian Solomon
Download or read book North American Railroad Family Trees written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of railroading in North America is as much a story of boardroom intrigue as it is a story of the brute force that stamped thousands of miles of train track across a rugged continent. Today’s nine U.S. and Canadian Class I railroads are the result of well over a century of convoluted bankruptcies, mergers, acquisitions, and expansions. North American Railroad Family Trees marks the first time in book form that this major aspect of railroad history has been presented in a clear, graphic format, helping the railfan make sense of the many smaller train lines that shaped North American rail as it is today. In these pages, renowned rail author Brian Solomon takes a visual and chronological approach, presenting 50 “family trees” in the style of human lineages. The story begins with the railroads of the “Golden Age” (1890–1930), continuing through the second wave of consolidations between the World Wars, the merger mania of the 1950s through the 1970s, the creation of major passenger networks, and the megamergers of the last three decades that have left railroading close to its current incarnation. Solomon even offers a selection of maps tracing the evolution of the North American rail system and diagrams proposing what-if scenarios for the industry’s future. Including chapter-by-chapter narrative overviews of key eras, along with a selection of rare photography and period advertising to lend historical context, North American Railroad Family Trees provides an unprecedented retrospective of the continent’s iconic rail network.
Book Synopsis The Columbia Companion to American History on Film by : Peter C. Rollins
Download or read book The Columbia Companion to American History on Film written by Peter C. Rollins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-24 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American History on Film, more than seventy scholars consider the gap between history and Hollywood. They examine how filmmakers have presented and interpreted the most important events, topics, eras, and figures in the American past, often comparing the film versions of events with the interpretations of the best historians who have explored the topic. Divided into eight broad categories—Eras; Wars and Other Major Events; Notable People; Groups; Institutions and Movements; Places; Themes and Topics; and Myths and Heroes—the volume features extensive cross-references, a filmography (of discussed and relevant films), notes, and a bibliography of selected historical works on each subject. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film is also an important resource for teachers, with extensive information for research or for course development appropriate for both high school and college students. Though each essay reflects the unique body of film and print works covering the subject at hand, every essay addresses several fundamental questions: What are the key films on this topic? What sources did the filmmaker use, and how did the film deviate (or remain true to) its sources? How have film interpretations of a particular historical topic changed, and what sorts of factors—technological, social, political, historiographical—have affected their evolution? Have filmmakers altered the historical record with a view to enhancing drama or to enhance the "truth" of their putative message?