Author: Albert FishlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Antebellum Economy
Author: Albert FishlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674028500
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Railroads in the Old South
Author: Aaron W. MarrsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. 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, 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. -- Dr. Owen Brown and Dr. Gale E. Gibson
Infrastructure Delivery
Author: Ashoka ModyPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821335208
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
IFC Lessons of Experience Paper No. 3. Describes the International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) 20 years of leasing experience in developing countries and assesses the developmental impact of leasing. The IFC has invested in leasing companies in more than half of the developing countries that have a leasing industry today.
American Railroads
Author: Robert E. GallamorePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725646
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Antebellum Economy
Author: Albert FishlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.
Railroads and American Economic Growth
Author: Robert William FogelPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Some Economic Phases of Transportation
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Modernizing a Slave Economy
Author: John MajewskiPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807882375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization. They blamed the South's lack of development on Union policies of discriminatory taxes on southern commerce and unfair subsidies for northern industry. Majewski argues that Confederates' opposition to a strong central government was politically tied to their struggle against northern legislative dominance. Once the Confederacy was formed, those who had advocated states' rights in the national legislature in order to defend against northern political dominance quickly came to support centralized power and a strong executive for war making and nation building.
Passage to Union
Author: Sarah GordonPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Conflicts of interest - at local, state, and regional levels - characterized railroad growth at every stage. Despite the stated aims of government and the railroad corporations to promote settlement and commerce, Ms. Gordon shows that the states lost control of these enterprises and lost the economic benefits of their traffic. Smaller towns withered as people and money flowed to larger cities. By 1900 the union that had emerged reflected the worst fears of railroad critics.