This work is a history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating d…
A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating…
This work is a history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating d…
In diesem Buch wird die technische Pionierleistung des Wirtschaftstheoretikers Friedrich List (1789-1846), die er für den Ausbau der Eisenbahn in den USA vollbracht hat, eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Mit dem Bau der Little Schuylkill-Eisenbahn in Pennsylvania förderte List die Infr…
Autobiographical account by Cyril Jones, 1881-1981, British railway engineer in former Hyderabad State.
Sitting at the heart of the Raj's project to 'improve' India, the construction of railways began as a 'liberal' experiment in 1853: to promote trade and commerce, to distribute food, and to facilitate the movement of troops. This study focuses in on what was the largest investme…
This volume provides a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in Europe managed to face the challenges of constructing and maintaining an integrated railway network, both in their own countries and their colonies.
This volume provides a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in Europe managed to face the challenges of constructing and maintaining an integrated railway network, both in their own countries and their colonies.
Entrada -- Oppression -- Resistance: Santo Domingo -- Stress and accommodation: Laguna, Acoma, and the Organic Law of Federal-Pueblo Relations -- Bankruptcy of the AT & SF -- Santo Domingo and Laguna, 1900-1930 -- Reformation -- L'Envoi
