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Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South
ISBN: 9780807125045 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lawyering for the Railroad provides the first full account of railroad monopoly power, tracing its sources and effects in the southern political economy. Issues touching on railroad development were major components of politics in the days of both Populism and Progressivism, and railroad attorneys -- often in their role as lobbyists -- were always in the middle of the action. They distributed free passes to legislators, retained the best counsel for their clients, laid out the legal agreements to form monopolies, and instituted practices to ensure quick and favorable settlements for the... Lawyering for the Railroad provides the first full account of railroad monopoly power, tracing its sources and effects in the southern political ec... |
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155,45 |
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Railroads of the Confederacy
ISBN: 9780807847299 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman's army, carrying the Confederacy down with them.
With maps of all the Confederate railroads and... Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a...
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155,45 |
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Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780807848036 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson.
Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence,... During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate...
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165,17 |
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The Hocking Valley Railway
ISBN: 9780821416587 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history of this railroad, says Richard Francaviglia, author of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron and salt-and kept the finest passenger service in the State of Ohio. Despite the fact that the Hocking Valley was such a large...
The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history ...
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121,40 |
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The Malbone Street Wreck
ISBN: 9780823219315 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush section of Brooklyn with hundreds of homeward-bound commuters aboard. As the train rumbled down a shor hill between Prospect Park and Ebbets Field in the very heart of Brooklyn, the unthinkable happened: the motorman lost control and the train left the tracks as it curved into a tunnel at the foot of the hill. The ensuing disaster, known ever since as the Malbone Street Wreck, took the lives of almost a hundred people and stands as the worst mass-transit...
On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush section of Brookl...
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325,48 |
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The Malbone Street Wreck
ISBN: 9780823219322 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush section of Brooklyn with hundreds of homeward-bound commuters aboard. As the train rumbled down a shor hill between Prospect Park and Ebbets Field in the very heart of Brooklyn, the unthinkable happened: the motorman lost control and the train left the tracks as it curved into a tunnel at the foot of the hill. The ensuing disaster, known ever since as the Malbone Street Wreck, took the lives of almost a hundred people and stands as the worst mass-transit...
On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush section of Brookl...
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135,98 |
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The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington
ISBN: 9780870814761 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices-an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and America itself richer by a national railroad system which contributed greatly to the country's westward expansion.
How did... The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, Californi...
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127,59 |
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Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866-1900
ISBN: 9780890968833 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Industrial Revolution rode into Texas on the railroads. The entire state witnessed the political and economic climate change as the tracks were laid, creating urban centers and even a new governmental body, the Texas Railroad Commission. At the same time, Galveston was a city on a mission to become the primary seaport for the Great West. Together, the corporate strategy of the railroads and the city's own desire for greatness paved the way for Galveston's growth and transformation into a focal point of Texas railroad ventures. In Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Rail...
The Industrial Revolution rode into Texas on the railroads. The entire state witnessed the political and economic climate change as the tracks were la...
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121,40 |
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Highways of Progress
ISBN: 9780894990250 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,42 |
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The Way It Was: Stories from the Grand Traverse Region
ISBN: 9780976610489 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1850s logging on the Boardman River to 1940s pilot training on mini-aircraft carriers on Lake Michigan; from the brand new Park Place Hotel to Dick Bassetts' hermitage on Bassette Island; from major crossroads to obscure sidings; the leading players and minor characters on the expanding northern Michigan stage kept things busy for 100 years. That was the way it was. And here it is. The nonagenarian Larry Wakefield has also kept busy by bring us this collection that amuse and educate.
From the 1850s logging on the Boardman River to 1940s pilot training on mini-aircraft carriers on Lake Michigan; from the brand new Park Place Hotel t...
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64,43 |
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Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina
ISBN: 9781570037160 / Angielski / Twarda / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complex history of an engineering marvel turned integral part of Confederate coastal defense
The complex history of an engineering marvel turned integral part of Confederate coastal defense
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184,60 |
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Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch
ISBN: 9781467128544 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,98 |
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Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen
ISBN: 9781587980039 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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158,09 |
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Railway Problems: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781587980756 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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158,09 |
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Railway Problems: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781587980763 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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158,09 |
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Slavery & the Underground Railroad in New Hampshire
ISBN: 9781540202628 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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The Wreck of the Penn Central
ISBN: 9781893122086 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen.
"The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train... It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States...
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158,09 |
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Steam Trains and Jigsaw Puzzles
ISBN: 9781425997946 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Steam Trains and Jigsaw Puzzles" strikes most people as an intriguing title. The origin is simple, however - my trainspotting youth has been synchronized with a later interest in jigsaw puzzles. The result is expensive - I have a collection of over 250 jigsaws depicting British steam railways. The conclusion is impossible - there are over 500 steam railway jigsaw puzzles to collect and they are being supplemented annually. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway marked the arrival of the true passenger railway service in 1830 and presented jigsaw manufacturers with another subject on which to...
"Steam Trains and Jigsaw Puzzles" strikes most people as an intriguing title. The origin is simple, however - my trainspotting youth has been synchron...
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115,30 |
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Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity
ISBN: 9780719059667 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 19th-century's steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In this work Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why for example did Britain possess no great railway novel? The work's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) against selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does...
The 19th-century's steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In this work Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of tra...
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102,22 |
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British Rail 1974-97: From Integration to Privatisation
ISBN: 9780199250059 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on privileged access to the British Railway Board's rich archives, this book provides and authoritative account of the progress made by the British Railway System prior to its privatization. It offers a unique account of the last fifteen years of nationalized railways in Britain, and it sheds light on the current problems of privatized railway systems. This volume is divided into four complete and concise sections for complete study: 'Railways Under Labour (1974-1979)', 'The Thatcher Revolution (British Rail in the 1980's)', 'On The Threshold of Privatization: Running the Railways...
Based on privileged access to the British Railway Board's rich archives, this book provides and authoritative account of the progress made by the Brit...
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869,20 |
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