Travelers Railway Guide, September 1918
Author : Canadian Guide Collection
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Canadian Guide Collection
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1916
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1918
Category : American drama
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Railroads
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Author : American Railway Guide Co
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Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Hotels
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Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 12,61 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. Patent Office
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Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Patents
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Author : Canada. Parliament
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Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Canada
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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Travel
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