Author: North Carolina Railroad Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the North Carolina Rail Road Company
Author: North Carolina Railroad Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A Bibliography of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina State Library
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Report
Author: North Carolina State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Executive and Legislative Documents
Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
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Proceedings of the Stockholders of the South-Carolina Railroad Company, and of the South-western Railroad Bank
Author: South Carolina Railroad
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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The Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission
Author: North Carolina Historical Commission
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Railroad History
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Railroads in the Old South
Author: Aaron W. Marrs
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898455
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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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
Biennial Report of the Librarian of the North Carolina State Library
Author: North Carolina State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
Author: New York State Agricultural Society
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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