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Author : Northern Central Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066786797
Author : Northern Central Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Railroads
ISBN : CHI:102233969
Author : Northern Central Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3010179
Author : Northern Central Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:102233977
Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812208962
From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S. corporations are growing larger and more irresponsible at the same time. But dependence on corporate profit was crucial to the early republic's growth, success, and security: despite protests that incorporated business was an inefficient and potentially corrupting system, U.S. state governments chartered more corporations per capita than any other nation—including Britain—effectively making the United States a "corporation nation." Drawing on legal and economic history, Robert E. Wright traces the development and decline of corporate institutions in America, connecting today's financial failures to deteriorating corporate law. In the nineteenth century, checks and balances kept managerial interests aligned with those of stockholders, and public opinion grew supportive as corporations raised billions of dollars to finance infrastructure such as transportation networks, financial systems, and manufacturing operations. But many of these checks and balances were dismantled after the Civil War, creating a space for the managerial malfeasance that spiraled into economic crisis in the twenty-first century. Bolstered with archival and original data, including the first complete count of American business corporations before the Civil War, Corporation Nation makes a compelling argument for improved internal governance and more effective external government regulation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951000877138N
Author : Tony Silber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640125902
In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were critically important. The nation’s capital never again came so close to being captured by the Confederates. Tony Silber’s riveting account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point: both sides expected the first clash to occur there. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, less than two days away by train, the Confederates had an organized army that was much larger and ready to fight. Maryland’s eastern sections were already reeling in violent insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North, the telegraph lines cut and the rail lines impassable, sabotaged by secessionist police and militia members. There was no cavalry coming. The United States had a tiny standing army at the time, most of it scattered west of the Mississippi. The federal government’s only defense would be state militias. But in state after state, the militia system was in tatters. Southern leaders urged an assault on Washington. A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. It likely would have assured the secession of Maryland. It might have resulted in England’s recognition of the Confederacy. It would have demoralized the North. Fortunately, none of this happened. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant who possessed a crystal-clear core objective and a powerful commitment to see it through. Told in real time, Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes of action: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements. Twelve Days tells for the first time the entire harrowing story of the first days of the Civil War.
Author : Northern Railroad Company (N.H.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066786888
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207620
"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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Railroads
ISBN : IND:30000114393170
Author : Gregg M. Turner
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781662469329
Railroads were the first big business enterprises in America, and they made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together and have ably transported people, goods, materials, supplies, express items, and mail. Literally, hundreds of railroads, if not more, were built in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the more important was the fabled Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which, by 1931, owned, controlled, or operated over 14,000 miles of transportation lines. The founders of this extraordinary firm were William and Henry Walters, father and son. Both are today largely remembered for their achievements in collecting works of art and establishing a world-class museum in Baltimore. But equally significant were their extraordinary efforts in founding and building up one of the great railway systems in America. Climb aboard for a special journey into this unique chapter of American railroad history!
Author : Cadmus Book Shop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015024266481
Author : Michigan Central Railroad Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UIUC:30112057162692
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UOM:39015022387693
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015021721769