National Consolidation of the Railways of the United States
Author : George Henry Lewis
Publisher : New-York, Dodd, Mead
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
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Author : George Henry Lewis
Publisher : New-York, Dodd, Mead
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Walter Marshall William Splawn
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
A discussion of the various plans proposed as a result of the consolidation clause of the Transportation Act of 1920.
Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0807876100
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, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.
Author : John E. Oldham
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Railroads
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Author : Richard Saunders
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0674368177
As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Author : United States U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Consolidation of land holdings
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Author : Rexford G 1891-1979 Tugwell
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2015-08-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781297602436
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Railroads
ISBN :