Southern Pacific Bulletin
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Railroads
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Railroads
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Railroads
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Author : American Warehousemen's Association
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603441278
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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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Oceania
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Author : Richard J. Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520940865
The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Larry Mullaly
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780870951183
Get the fascinating story of how steel rails transformed an isolated ranching and agricultural center into the West's greatest city. An unforgettable walk through time recaptures the West's most powerful railroad.
Author : Stuart Daggett
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Pacific railroads
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Animals
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Author : Matthew Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131546375X
This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of ‘transition’ as used to describe the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for considering other transformations – social, political and economic –under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central tension between change and continuity, two of the book’s key themes are the contested narratives of changing state–society relations and the changing social relations around land and natural resources engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation. Drawing heuristically on RAMSI’s genesis in the ‘state- building moment’ that dominated international relations during the first decade of this century, the book also examines the critical distinction between ‘state-building’ and ‘state formation’ in the Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building, legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development practitioners. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Pacific History.