Author: American Board of Transportation and Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Convention of American Cheap Transportation Association, held at Association Hall, Richmond, Va. Commencing on the 1st December, 1874
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385371090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385371090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Proceedings of the National Convention of American Cheap Transportation Association
Author: American Board of Transportation and Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The National Convention of the American Cheap Transportation Association
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336883679X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336883679X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Transportation Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Convention
Author: National Postal Transport Association (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Author: New Jersey Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Steam City
Author: David Schley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
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Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Manual of Information on City Planning and Zoning
Author: Theodora Kimball Hubbard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description