Author: Howard Gray Brownson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870
Author: Howard Gray Brownson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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History of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and Representative Employes
Author: Railroad Historical Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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History of the Illinois Central Railroad
Author: John F. Stover
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Heartland
Author: Kristin L. Hoganson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.
Corporate History of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and Its Controlled and Affiliated Companies Up to June 30th, 1915
Author: Edward W. McGrew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900
Author: David L. Lightner
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Constitutional Convention Bulletin, No. 1[-15] ...
Author: Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year ...
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Illinois Whigs Before 1846
Author: Charles Manfred Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Railroad Land Grants
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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