Author: Virginia State Library
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State Library
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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A Bibliography of Virginia
Author: Earl Gregg Swem
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
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A History of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Author: Howard Douglas Dozier
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
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Category : Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Publisher: Boston, Houghton
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Category : Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ...
Author: Virginia
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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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
Governor's Message and Reports of the Public Officers of the State, of the Boards of Directors, and of the Visitors, Superintendents, and Other Agents of Public Institutions Or Interests of Virginia
Author: Virginia
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Includes extra sessions.
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Includes extra sessions.