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Author : Dutton Foster,Ray Hannisian,Lee Stametz
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1583420010
Author : Ray Hannisian,Dutton Foster,Lee Stametz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Musicals
ISBN : LCCN:89220155
Author : Mark H. Rose,Bruce E. Seely,Paul F. Barrett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812221169
This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Hazardous substances
ISBN : UIUC:30112104082216
Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421424156
Demonstrates how railroad safety evolved from the intersection of market pressures, technology, and public sentiment.--Journal of Southern History
Author : Michael C. Batinski
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809338382
Revealing the forgotten in community histories Histories try to forget, as this evocative study of one community reveals. Forgetting and the Forgotten details the nature of how a community forged its story against outsiders. Historian Michael C. Batinski explores the habits of forgetting that enable communities to create an identity based on silencing competing narratives. The white settlers of Jackson County, Illinois, shouldered the hopes of a community and believed in the justice of their labor as it echoed the national story. The county’s pastkeepers, or keepers of the past, emphasizing the white settlers’ republican virtue, chose not to record violence against Kaskaskia people and African Americans and to disregard the numerous transient laborers. Instead of erasing the presence of outsiders, the pastkeepers could offer only silence, but it was a silence that could be broken. Batinski’s historiography critically examines local historical thought in a way that illuminates national history. What transpired in Jackson County was repeated in countless places throughout the nation. At the same time, national history writing rarely turns to experiences that can be found in local archives such as court records, genealogical files, archaeological reports, coroner’s records, and veterans’ pension files. In this archive, juxtaposed with the familiar actors of Jackson County history—Benningsen Boon, John A. Logan, and Daniel Brush—appear the Sky People, Italian immigrant workers, black veterans of the Civil War and later champions of civil rights whose stories challenge the dominant narrative.
Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801882362
"The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1949-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128585614
Author : Jack Harpster
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809386802
William Butler Ogden was a pioneer railroad magnate, one of the earliest founders and developers of the city of Chicago, and an important influence on U.S. westward expansion. His career as a businessman stretched from the streets of Chicago to the wilds of the Wisconsin lumber forests, from the iron mines of Pennsylvania to the financial capitals in New York and beyond. Jack Harpster’s The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden is the first chronicle of one of the most notable figures in nineteenth-century America. Harpster traces the life of Ogden from his early experiences as a boy and young businessman in upstate New York to his migration to Chicago, where he invested in land, canal construction, and steamboat companies. He became Chicago’s first mayor, built the city’s first railway system, and suffered through the Great Chicago Fire. His diverse business interests included real estate, land development, city planning, urban transportation, manufacturing, beer brewing, mining, and banking, to name a few. Harpster, however, does not simply focus on Ogden’s role as business mogul; he delves into the heart and soul of the man himself. The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago is a meticulously researched and nuanced biography set against the backdrop of the historical and societal themes of the nineteenth century. It is a sweeping story about one man’s impact on the birth of commerce in America. Ogden’s private life proves to be as varied and interesting as his public persona, and Harpster weaves the two into a colorful tapestry of a life well and usefully lived.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045259152
Author : Eric Ethier
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780811741729
The harsh discipline of Puritan life bred the hard-bitten and hard-working people of Massachusetts, but did it also breed a unique type of criminal? This book explores the headline crimes of the state to find an answer.
Author : Karl R. Zimmermann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780253001498
Narrow-gauge railroading conjures images of marginal track, wooden coaches, and antique steam locomotives. Yet consider the extraordinarily glamorous and comfortable South African Blue Train and Australia's Queenslander as well as the electrified network of meter-gauge mountain railways in Switzerland that run with a precision similar to that of the country's famed timepieces. Often used to penetrate the most challenging and breathtaking terrain that larger trains are unable to reach, narrow-gauge railways offer even the most seasoned of travelers an experience to remember. Karl Zimmermann, railroad author and accomplished photographer, chronicles his journeys aboard these rarest of trains. Individual chapters weave history and travelogue, complemented by more than 100 color illustrations. The result is a spirited tribute to the world's most charismatic railways.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Coal leases
ISBN : LOC:00173010825
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000019277349
Author : Matthew D. Esposito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2985 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351211833
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.