Author: Nashua and Lowell Railroad Corporation
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Report of the Directors of the Nashua and Lowell Rail Road Corporation, Made to the Stockholders
Author: Nashua and Lowell Railroad Corporation
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners
Author: New Hampshire. Railroad Commissioners
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Annual Reports of the Railroad Corporations in the State of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
1851-1856 include: Abstract of the returns of railroad corporations.
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
1851-1856 include: Abstract of the returns of railroad corporations.
Annual Report
Author: New Hampshire. Railroad Commissioners
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Annual Reports of the Rail-road Corporations in the State of Massachusetts
Author:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
American Railroad Journal
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
American Railroad Journal and Mechanics' Magazine
Author:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Report of the Directors of the Boston and Lowell Railroad
Author: Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New Hampshire
Author: New Hampshire. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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