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Author : Robert Selph Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Railroad land grants
ISBN : OCLC:228775051
Author : Robert S Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091166334
Author : Robert Selph Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258394014
Author : Lloyd J. Mercer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483257990
Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention attempts to replace a major part of the railroad land grant legend (according to which the granting of federal and state land to private railroad firms benefitted these firms more than it contributed to society as a whole) with some real numbers and analysis. An attempt is made to put the income and wealth distribution impact of the railroad land grants in perspective, but thorough analysis of this issue is not undertaken. The primary question this study does try to illuminate is that of the effect of the railroad land grants on economic efficiency. This emphasis was chosen because it seems clear that improvement of economic efficiency was the major goal that Congress and various state legislatures sought to attain, and thus the examination of economic efficiency questions is fundamental to evaluation of railroad land grant policy. This study will not completely replace the railroad land grant legend (because much is not covered here), but it does represent a considerable diminution of that legend.
Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Railroad land grants
ISBN : UIUC:30112117983749
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : MINN:31951P007428844
Author : Richard C. Overton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781477306246
Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard. To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in a cheap rail-water route via the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Meanwhile ambitious Fort Worth citizens had incorporated the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1873. Not a rail was laid on either road, however, until General Grenville M. Dodge, famed builder of the Union Pacific and the Texas Pacific, took up the Texas project and joined forces with Evans to create the Gulf-to-Rockies route. It took seven years for these men and their associates to mobilize funds and complete the Fort Worth–Denver line, and another decade to establish the system’s independence and solve its financial problems in the face of drought, depression, and intense competition. Gulf to Rockies was written under special agreements with Northwestern University and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, whereby the university relieved Mr. Overton of a part of his duties in order that he might have time for research and writing and the railroad undertook to bear the cost of the research. The Burlington also permitted him free access to all company records and granted him unrestricted freedom to publish his findings.
Author : Eugene P. Trani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015010840455
Author : Richard J. Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520251649
The only major US railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific played a major role in the shaping of the West & the development of southern California in particular. 'Sunset Limited' explores the corporate strategy over time to reveal how the company saw its place in the world.
Author : Ingolf Vogeler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000303704
The ideal of the family farm has been used to justify a myriad of federal farm legislation. Land grants, the distribution of irrigation water, land-grant college research and services, farm programs, and tax laws all have been affected. Yet, asserts the author, federal legislation and practices have had an institutional bias toward large-scale farms and agribusiness and have hastened the demise of family farms. Dr. Vogeler examines the struggle between land interests in the private and public sectors and finds that the myth of the family farm has been used to obscure the dominance of agribusiness and that the corporate penetration of agriculture has in turn contributed to the plight of migrant workers, the decline of small towns, and the economic difficulties of independent farmers. Dr. Vogeler also identifies the major shortcomings of agribusiness and federal land-related laws and programs; examines the regional impact of agribusiness and federal farm programs on rural areas; and considers the role of racial minorities and women in the development of agrarian capitalism. In conclusion, he offers a structural analysis that provides the means for progressive social change and states that the achievement of economic equality in rural America and the dismantling of the corporate control of agriculture can be realized through farmer-labor alliances.
Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781451602661
A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.
Author : Edited by Louis P. Cain,Edited by Price V. Fishback,Edited by Paul W. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197575987
American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-makers, and in the academy. The current economic turmoil, calling forth comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s, is in part responsible for the surge in interest among the public and in policy circles. It has also stimulated greater scholarly research into past financial crises, the multiplier effects of fiscal and monetary policy, the dynamics of the housing market, and international economic cooperation and conflict. Other pressing policy issues--including the impending retirement of the Baby-Boom generation, the ongoing expansion of the healthcare sector, and the environmental challenges imposed by global climate change--have further increased demand for the long-run perspective given by economic history. Confronting this need, The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History affords access to the latest research on the crucial events, themes, and legacies of America's economic history--from colonial America, to the Civil War,up to present day. More than fifty contributors address topics as wide-ranging as immigration, agriculture, and urbanization. Over its two volumes, this handbook gives readers not only a comprhensive look at where the field of American economic history currently stands but where it is headed in the years to come.
Author : Edited by Louis P. Cain,Edited by Price V. Fishback,Edited by Paul W. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190937072
American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-makers, and in the academy. The current economic turmoil, calling forth comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s, is in part responsible for the surge in interest among the public and in policy circles. It has also stimulated greater scholarly research into past financial crises, the multiplier effects of fiscal and monetary policy, the dynamics of the housing market, and international economic cooperation and conflict. Other pressing policy issues--including the impending retirement of the Baby-Boom generation, the ongoing expansion of the healthcare sector, and the environmental challenges imposed by global climate change--have further increased demand for the long-run perspective given by economic history. Confronting this need, The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History affords access to the latest research on the crucial events, themes, and legacies of America's economic history--from colonial America, to the Civil War,up to present day. More than fifty contributors address topics as wide-ranging as immigration, agriculture, and urbanization. Over its two volumes, this handbook gives readers not only a comprhensive look at where the field of American economic history currently stands but where it is headed in the years to come.
Author : Paul Wallace Gates,United States. Public Land Law Review Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Public lands
ISBN : UCSC:32106000891595
Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252068815
Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.