Encyclopedia Of American Business History And Biography Railroads In The Nineteenth Century Ed By Robert L Frey
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Encyclopedia Of American Business History And Biography Railroads In The Nineteenth Century Ed By Robert L Frey
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Release Date : 1988
Encyclopedia Of American Business History And Biography Railroads In The Nineteenth Century Ed By Robert L Frey written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Industries categories.
Southern Railway
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Author : Tom Murray
language : en
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Southern Railway written by Tom Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Southern Railway categories.
American Entrepreneur
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Author : Larry Schweikart
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2009-09-23
American Entrepreneur written by Larry Schweikart and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-23 with Business & Economics categories.
This book vividly illustrates the history of business in the United States from the point of view of the enterprising men and women who made it happen. Ever since the first colonists landed in the New World, Americans have forged ahead in their quest to make good on promises of capitalism and independence. Weaving stirring narrative with economic analysis, this historical deep dive recounts the successes and failures of some of the most iconic business people to grace our history books--from the founding of our country to the present day. In American Entrepreneur, you’ll learn about how: Eli Whitney changed the shape of the American business landscape; the Civil War impacted the economy, and how it was renewed by the subsequent dominance of Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan; Asa Candler, W. K. Kellogg, Henry Ford, and J.C. Penney led the rise of the consumer marketplace; and Warren Buffett’s, Michael Milken’s, and Martha Stewart’s experience in the “New Economy” in the 1990s--and how that economy continues today. It is an adventure to start a business, and the greatest risk takers in that adventure are entrepreneurs. This is the epic story of America’s entrepreneurs and how they created the economy we enjoy today.
Richmond Locomotive Machine Works The
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Author : Nathan Madison
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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Richmond Locomotive Machine Works The written by Nathan Madison and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
Encyclopedia Of American Business History And Biography
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language : en
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Release Date : 1988
Encyclopedia Of American Business History And Biography written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Railroads categories.
Socializing Capital
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Author : William G. Roy
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1999-07-01
Socializing Capital written by William G. Roy and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case.
Mrs Russell Sage
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Author : Ruth Crocker
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-01
Mrs Russell Sage written by Ruth Crocker and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood. When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women and the responsibilities of wealth, for moral reform and material betterment, she took the money and put it to her own uses. Spending replaced volunteer work; suffrage bazaars and fundraising fÃates gave way to large donations to favorite causes. As a widow, Olivia Sage moved in public with authority. She used her wealth to fund a wide spectrum of progressive reforms that had a lasting impact on American life, including her most significant philanthropy, the Russell Sage Foundation.
Local Businesses
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Author : Kathel Austin Kerr
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 1990
Local Businesses written by Kathel Austin Kerr and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Business & Economics categories.
With this volume, the Nearby History Series will lead you on a journey to discover how the businesses in your community helped shape its present form. Providing fundamental information on the processes of investigating a business' heritage, Local Businesses acts as a complete guide for local historians and historical societies, business historians, business owners, local citizens, museum workers and librarians interested in examining this aspect of local history. Local Businesses is Volume 5 in The Nearby History Series.
John W Garrett And The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad
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Author : Kathleen Waters Sander
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-05-25
John W Garrett And The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad written by Kathleen Waters Sander and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with History categories.
How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation. Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O’s success ignited “railroad fever” and helped to catapult railroading to America’s most influential industry in the nineteenth century. Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put “Mr. Lincoln’s Road” out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores how—when he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitors—Garrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimore’s moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the Gilded Age tycoons in this richly illustrated portrait of one man’s undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads’ indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett’s twenty-six-year reign.
Unfinished Business
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Author : Maury Klein
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1994-04
Unfinished Business written by Maury Klein and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04 with Business & Economics categories.
A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian.