Author: Virginia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
Book Description
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly of Virginia, with the Accompanying Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Governor's Message and Annual Reports of the Public Officers of the State, and of the Boards of Directors, Visitors, Superintendents, and Other Agents of Public Institutions Or Interests of Virginia
Author: Virginia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Catalogue of the Library: June 1900-December 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Catalogue of the Library ... December 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Railroads in the Old South
Author: Aaron W. Marrs
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898455
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An original history of the railroad in the Old South that challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners’ pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. “The time is right to bring the South into the story of the economic transformation of antebellum America. Aaron Marrs does this with force and grace in Railroads in the Old South.” —John L. Larson, Purdue University “I am hard pressed to think of another volume that better catches the overall effect railroads had on the Old South.” —Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University “Interesting regional history . . . It is a thoughtful and instructive study that examines not only the pervasiveness of transportation but also some of the social, political, and economic consequences associated with the evolution of southern railroads.” —Choice
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898455
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An original history of the railroad in the Old South that challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners’ pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. “The time is right to bring the South into the story of the economic transformation of antebellum America. Aaron Marrs does this with force and grace in Railroads in the Old South.” —John L. Larson, Purdue University “I am hard pressed to think of another volume that better catches the overall effect railroads had on the Old South.” —Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University “Interesting regional history . . . It is a thoughtful and instructive study that examines not only the pervasiveness of transportation but also some of the social, political, and economic consequences associated with the evolution of southern railroads.” —Choice
Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly of Virginia, with the Accompanying Documents
Author: Virginia. Board of Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Catalog of the Library: Accessions from June, 1900, to December, 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Virginia Reports
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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