Author: Virginia Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Proceedings of a Called Meeting of the Stockholders of the Virginia Central R. R. Company
Author: Virginia Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Proceedings of the Called Meeting of the Stockholders of the Virginia Central Railroad Company, Held in the City of Richmond, May 22, 1867
Author: Virginia Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Iron Way
Author: William G. ThomasPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300171684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
How railroads both united and divided us: “Integrates military and social history…a must-read for students, scholars and enthusiasts alike.”—Civil War Monitor Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict. Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve their larger purposes, Thomas contends. Though railroads are often cited as a major factor in the Union’s victory, he shows that they were also essential to the formation of “the South” as a unified region. He discusses the many—and sometimes unexpected—effects of railroad expansion, and proposes that America’s great railroads became an important symbolic touchstone for the nation’s vision of itself. “In this provocative and deeply researched book, William G. Thomas follows the railroad into virtually every aspect of Civil War history, showing how it influenced everything from slavery’s antebellum expansion to emancipation and segregation—from guerrilla warfare to grand strategy. At every step, Thomas challenges old assumptions and finds new connections on this much-traveled historical landscape."—T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
A Bibliography of Virginia ...
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Contents.--pt. 1. Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents.--pt. 2. Titles of the printed official documents of the Commonwealth, 1776-1916.--pt. 3. The Acts and Journals of the General Assembly of the Colony, 1619-1776.--pt. 4. Three series of sessional documents of the House of Delegates: ... January 7-April 4, 1861 ... September 15-October 6, 1862; and .. January 7-March 31, 1863.--pt. 5. Titles of the printed documents of the Commonwealth, 1916-1925.
A Bibliography of Virginia ...: Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway EconomicsPublisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library: Subjects
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly of Virginia, with the Accompanying Documents
Author: Virginia. Board of Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Author: Virginia