The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890

ISBN-13: 9780252071140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 128 str.

George Rogers Taylor; Irene D. Neu; Mark Reutter

Opis

Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. This title shows how the consolidation of smaller railroads and the growth of capitalism worked to unify the railroad industry.