Author: Leslie Edward Decker
Publisher: Providence : Brown University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, homestead law and homesteaders, Kansas Pacific Railroad, lobbyists, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Railway Commission of 1887, immigrants, population expansion, Santa Fe Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, etc.
Railroads, Lands, and Politics
Author: Leslie Edward Decker
Publisher: Providence : Brown University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, homestead law and homesteaders, Kansas Pacific Railroad, lobbyists, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Railway Commission of 1887, immigrants, population expansion, Santa Fe Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, etc.
Publisher: Providence : Brown University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, homestead law and homesteaders, Kansas Pacific Railroad, lobbyists, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Railway Commission of 1887, immigrants, population expansion, Santa Fe Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, etc.
Railroads and Land Grant Policy
Author: Lloyd J. Mercer
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency.
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency.
Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways
Author: John Bell Sanborn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Railways of Europe and America
Author: Marion Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Report to the Secretary of the Interior
Author: United States. Office of the Commissioner of Railroads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Railroads and American Political Development
Author: Zachary Callen
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623000
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would demand—a demand that became ever clearer as the power and importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide rail network, it also became clear, far exceeded the resources of state and local government and private industry. The consequences, as seen in this book, amounted to state building from the ground up. In Railroads and American Political Development Zachary Callen tells the story of the federal government's role in developing a national rail system—and the rail system's role in expanding the power of the federal government. The book reveals how state building, so often attributed to an aggressive national government, can also result from local governments making demands on the national state—a dynamic that can still be seen at work every time the US Congress takes up a transportation bill. Though many states invested in their local railroads, and many quite successfully, others were less willing or less capable—so rail development necessarily became a federal concern. Railroads and American Political Development shows how this led to the Land Grant Act of 1850, a crucial piece of legislation in the building of both the nation's infrastructure and the American state. Chronicling how this previously local issue migrated to the federal state, and how federal action then altered American rail planning, the book offers a new perspective on the exact nature of federalism. In the case of rail development, we see how state governments factor into the American state building process, and how, in turn, the separation of powers at the federal level shaped that process. The result is a fresh view of the development of the American rail system, as well as a clearer picture of the pressures and political logic that have altered and expanded the reach of American federalism.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623000
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would demand—a demand that became ever clearer as the power and importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide rail network, it also became clear, far exceeded the resources of state and local government and private industry. The consequences, as seen in this book, amounted to state building from the ground up. In Railroads and American Political Development Zachary Callen tells the story of the federal government's role in developing a national rail system—and the rail system's role in expanding the power of the federal government. The book reveals how state building, so often attributed to an aggressive national government, can also result from local governments making demands on the national state—a dynamic that can still be seen at work every time the US Congress takes up a transportation bill. Though many states invested in their local railroads, and many quite successfully, others were less willing or less capable—so rail development necessarily became a federal concern. Railroads and American Political Development shows how this led to the Land Grant Act of 1850, a crucial piece of legislation in the building of both the nation's infrastructure and the American state. Chronicling how this previously local issue migrated to the federal state, and how federal action then altered American rail planning, the book offers a new perspective on the exact nature of federalism. In the case of rail development, we see how state governments factor into the American state building process, and how, in turn, the separation of powers at the federal level shaped that process. The result is a fresh view of the development of the American rail system, as well as a clearer picture of the pressures and political logic that have altered and expanded the reach of American federalism.
Oregon & California Railroad Grant Lands
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Oregon-California Railroad Land Grants
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Railroads and Clearcuts
Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Keokee Company Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Keokee Company Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Northern Pacific Land Grants
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description