Author: Thomas Dionysius ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Pioneer Southern Railroad from New Orleans to Cairo
Author: Thomas Dionysius ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Pioneer Southern Railroad from New Orleans to Cairo
Author: Thomas Dionysius ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Travel On Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828–1860
Author: Eugene AlvarezPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817354832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Railroading in its heyday
A History of Chicago, Volume II
Author: Bessie Louise PiercePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Author: Robert H. GudmestadPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713841X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
Cotton City
Author: Harriet E. Amos DossPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311203
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Amos's study delineates the basis for Mobile's growth and the ways in which residents and their government promoted growth and adapted to it.
Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky
Author: John E. KleberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189586
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the claim to one of the South's eminent historians. In 1990, when the Kentucky General Assembly honored Clark by declaring him Kentucky's Historian Laureate for life, Governor Brereton Jones described Clark as "Kentucky's greatest treasure." Historian, advocate, educator, preservationist, publisher, writer, mentor, friend, Kentuckian—Dr. Clark has filled all these roles and more. Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky is a celebration of his life and careerby just a few of those who have felt his influence and shared his enthusiasm for his adopted home state of Kentucky.
P. G. T. Beauregard
Author: T. Harry WilliamsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807119747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams’ P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as “the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy’s always dramatic, often perplexing” general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of exotic Creole Louisiana origin, Beauregard participated in every phase of the Civil War from its beginning to its end. He rigidly adhered to the principles of war derived from his studies of Jomini and Napoleon, and yet many of his battle plans were rejected by his superiors, who regarded him as excitable, unreliable, and contentious. After the war, Beauregard was almost the only prominent Confederate general who adapted successfully to the New South, running railroads and later supervising the notorious Louisiana Lottery. This paradox of a man who fought gallantly to defend the Old South and then helped industrialize it is the fascinating subject of Williams’ superb biography.
The Railway Pattern of Metropolitan Chicago
Author: Harold Melvin MayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Louisiana: A Guide to the State
Author: Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540172
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description