Railroads Triumphant : The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force
Albro. Martin
Bok Engelsk 1991 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 1991.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (443 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Illustrations and Maps; 1. Nerves of Copper, Arteries of Iron; 2. A Nation on Wheels: The Formative Years of the American Passenger Train, 1830-1870; 3. Mobile, Hard-Working, and Hard-Playing: Rail Travel and the Transformation of American Society, 1870-1900; 4. The Passenger Train Creates Modern America; 5. The Passenger Train Exalted, 1900-1990; 6. The First Energy Revolution; 7. Oh, the Farmer and the Townsman Must Be Friends!; 8. Carrying the People's Burden to Market; 9. From Mercantile Nation to Industrial Giant; 10. From Entrepreneurs to Managers: The Founding Years. - 11. Entrepreneurs to Managers: Across the Broad Missouri12. New Jobs To Do, New People To Do Them; 13. Lawyers, Bankers, and ""Real"" Railroad Men; 14. It's All Politics!; 15. Enterprise Triumphant; Comments on the Sources; Index. - In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with few people settling more than a hundred miles from the ocean (a mere two percent lived west of the Appalachians). America in effect was just a thin ribbon of land by the sea, and it wasn't until the com
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| ISBN | 0195038533
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