Trucking Country
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Trucking Country
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Author : Shane Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Trucking Country written by Shane Hamilton 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 2008-09-15 with History categories.
Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country. Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "bandit" drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "last American cowboy," and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Trucking America
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Author : Jack Davis
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-03-25
Trucking America written by Jack Davis and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-25 with History categories.
The history connections start with the transportation by my great-grandfather of army goods and supplies as colonel in charge during the Civil War. The oxen and wagons moving family goods and others to Canada and then to St. Joe, Missouri, to be with the second wagon train going west to the Oregon territory. My grandfathers, my father, and myself in our life long involvement in moving all types of freight in America. The dedication of all this and incidents along the way.
Crashed The Gate Doing Ninety Eight
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Author : Tim Scherrer
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-01-03
Crashed The Gate Doing Ninety Eight written by Tim Scherrer and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-03 with History categories.
This is the untold story of the very first electronic social network in America: The CB Radio. Citizen's Band Radio grew from to a small number of hobby users to a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s. The adoption by millions of Americans forced the FCC to give up nearly all regulation. CB life created it's own "slanguage, "music and values. What started with mostly truckers grew during Arab Oil Crisis and eventually went widespread. Users adapted CB's to their own economic and social uses. This adaptation changed the character of the radio use eventually making the radios truly the Citizen's Band. And then they disappeared... The book culminates 23 years of research with 296 pages, 44 illustrations and more than 200 sources. Interviews include Hairl Hensley of WSM, Bob Cole of aka the "Midnight Rider" from KIKK (now in Austin) and Bill Fries aka C.W. McCall the "Rubber Duck."
The Cotton Crop Of 1899 1900
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Author : George Kirby Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Cotton Crop Of 1899 1900 written by George Kirby Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Agricultural implements categories.
Trucking Magic
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Author : Mick Twemlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-17
Trucking Magic written by Mick Twemlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-17 with categories.
In the 1970s and 1980s Pro-Motor (Europe) Ltd were one of the most highly successful and respected transport companies in Great Britain.Their vehicles operated to every country in Europe as well as the Middle East, North Africa and Russia.They were experts in international haulage, exhibition transport, show tours and specialised vehicle transport.The Author, Mick Twemlow, a highly experienced international truck driver, drove for Pro-Motor between 1978 and 1983. His narrative, written on a country by country basis, describes the adventures and incidents that he and his fellow drivers experienced during those five years.At the time, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain and operating in the Soviet dominated Eastern Europe brought its own challenges, which are described in detail. The corrupt nature of officials and the inherent dangers of truck driving in Turkey and Iraq are also fully explained.Although the work entailed facing dangerous situations it also had its lighter side.In summing up his five years driving for Pro-Motor Mick refers to the corporate logo of the companyand declares that it was truly "Trucking Magic".
Report Of The Commissioner
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Author : Maryland. Land Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Report Of The Commissioner written by Maryland. Land Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Maryland categories.
Regulatory Problems Of The Independent Owner Operator In The Nation S Trucking Industry
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Regulatory Problems Of The Independent Owner Operator In The Nation S Trucking Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Trucking categories.
The Other Rights Revolution
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Author : Jefferson Decker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-01
The Other Rights Revolution written by Jefferson Decker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Political Science categories.
In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic processes that govern the way Americans do business. Believing that the growing size and complexity of government regulations threatened U.S. economy and infringed on property rights, Pacific Legal Foundation began to file a series of lawsuits challenging the government's power to plan the use of private land or protect environmental qualities. By the end of the decade, they had been joined in this effort by spin-off legal foundations across the country. The Other Rights Revolution explains how a little-known collection of lawyers and politicians--with some help from angry property owners and bulldozer-driving Sagebrush Rebels--tried to bring liberal government to heel in the final decades of the twentieth century. Decker demonstrates how legal and constitutional battles over property rights, preservation, and the environment helped to shape the political ideas and policy agendas of modern conservatism. By uncovering the history--including the regionally distinctive experiences of the American West--behind the conservative mobilization in the courts, Decker offers a new interpretation of the Reagan-era right.
Atomic Environments
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Author : Neil Shafer Oatsvall
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2023-02-21
Atomic Environments written by Neil Shafer Oatsvall and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-21 with History categories.
"In "Atomic Environments," Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top policymakers in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations used environmental science in their work developing nuclear strategy at the beginning of the Cold War. While many people were involved in research and analysis during the period in question, it was at highest levels of executive decision-making where environmental science and nuclear science most clearly combined to shape the nation's policies. Because making and testing weapons, dealing with fallout and nuclear waste, and finding uses for radioactive byproducts required advanced understanding of how nuclear systems interacted with the world, policymakers utilized existing networks of environmental scientists-particularly meteorologists, geologists, and ecologists-to understand and control the United States' use of nuclear technology. Instead of profiling individuals, Oatsvall focuses on executive institutions, especially the leadership of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and high level officials in the Truman and Eisenhower White Houses, including the presidents, themselves. By scrutinizing institutional policymaking practices and agendas at the birth of the nuclear age, a constant set of values becomes clear: "Atomic Environments" reveals an emerging technocratic class that consistently valued knowledge about the environment to help create and maintain a nuclear arsenal, despite its existential threat to life on earth and the negative effects many nuclear technologies directly had on ecosystems and the American people, alike. "Atomic Environments" is divided into five chapters, each of which probes a different facet of the entanglement between environment, nuclear technologies, and policymaking. The first three chapters form a rough narrative arc about nuclear weapons. Chapter One situates bombs in their "natural habitat" by considering why nuclear tests occurred where they did and what testers thought they revealed about the natural environment and how they influenced it. Focusing on nuclear fallout, Chapter Two argues that nuclear tests actually functioned as a massive, uncontrolled experiment in world environments and human bodies that intermingled medicine, nuclear science, and environmental science. Chapter Three shows how the environmental knowledge gained in the first two chapters led to nuclear test ban treaty talks during the Eisenhower era, when the advancement of environmental knowledge and the natural world itself became crucial grounds of contention in the creation of nuclear test detection and evasion systems. The last two chapters step away from weapons to question how other nuclear technologies and facets of the U.S. nuclear program interacted with the natural world. Chapter Four examines agriculture's place in the U.S. nuclear program, from breakthrough advances in agricultural science including the use of radioisotopes and the direct application of radiation to food, to "atomic agriculture's" public relations value as a peaceful proxy, which shifted the moral calculus and further leveraged the U.S. government's atomic power. Chapter Five shows how knowledge of the natural world and the functioning of its systems proved important to uncovering the most effective ways to dispose of nuclear waste. Running throughout, Oatsvall consistently demonstrates how the natural world and the scientific disciplines that study it became integral parts of nuclear science, rather than adversarial fields of knowledge. But while nuclear technologies heavily depended on environmental science to develop, those same technologies frequently caused great harm to the natural world. Moreover, while some individuals expressed real anxieties about the damage wrought by nuclear technologies, policymakers as a class consistently made choices that privileged nuclear boosterism and secrecy, prioritizing institutional values over the lives and living systems that agencies like the AEC were ostensibly charged to protect. In the end, Oatsvall argues that although policymakers took their charge to protect and advance the welfare of the United States and its people seriously, they often failed to do so because their allegiance to the U.S. nuclear hierarchy blinded them to the real risks and dangers of the nuclear age"--
Southern White Cedar
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Author : Clarence Ferdinand Korstian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Southern White Cedar written by Clarence Ferdinand Korstian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Incense cedar categories.