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The Great Road
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Author : James D. Dilts
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-01
The Great Road written by James D. Dilts and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-01 with Transportation categories.
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
The World The Trains Made
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Author : James D. Dilts
language : en
Publisher: ForeEdge
Release Date : 2018
The World The Trains Made written by James D. Dilts and has been published by ForeEdge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with ARCHITECTURE categories.
A richly illustrated guide to railroad architecture, in all its surprising variety
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 Biography & Autobiography categories.
Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1
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Author : Albert J. Churella
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-10-29
The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-29 with History categories.
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
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.
The 100 Most Significant Events In American Business
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Author : Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-05-04
The 100 Most Significant Events In American Business written by Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This reference book details the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business, featuring case studies of successful companies who challenged traditional operating paradigms, historical perspectives on labor laws, management practices, and economic climates, and an examination of the impact of these influences on today's business practices. Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive—even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today. The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2010.
Selling The Sights
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Author : Will B. Mackintosh
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Selling The Sights written by Will B. Mackintosh and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with History categories.
A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
The Railroad And The State
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Author : Robert G. Angevine
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
The Railroad And The State written by Robert G. Angevine and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century.
Annapolis City On The Severn
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Author : Jane W. McWilliams
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-06-15
Annapolis City On The Severn written by Jane W. McWilliams and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-15 with Architecture categories.
As unique as the city it describes, Annapolis, City on the Severn builds on the most recent scholarship and offers readers a fascinating portrait into the past of this great city.
1831
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Author : Louis P. Masur
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2002-02-09
1831 written by Louis P. Masur and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-09 with History categories.
1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter way, swayed the course of our nation. 1831 was one of them, and in this striking new work, Louis Masur shows us exactly how. The year began with a solar eclipse, for many an omen of mighty changes -- and for once, such predictions held true. Nat Turner's rebellion soon followed, then ever-more violent congressional arguments over slavery and tarrifs. Religious revivalism swept the North, and important observers (including Tocqueville) traveled the land, forming the opinions that would shape the world's view of America for generations to come. New technologies, meanwhile, were dramatically changing Americans' relationship with the land, and Andrew Jackson's harsh policies toward the Cherokee erased most Indians' last hopes of autonomy. As Masur's analysis makes clear, by 1831 it was becoming all too certain that political rancor, the struggle over slavery, the pursuit of individualism, and technological development might eclipse the glorious potential of the early republic--and lead the nation to secession and civil war. This is an innovative and challenging interpretation of a key moment in antibellum America.