[PDF] Government Promotion Of American Canals And Railroads 1800 1890 eBook

Author : James W. Ely, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0700611444

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No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.

Author : David R. Meyer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2003-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801871412

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Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.

Author : John H. Cumberland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111375072

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Author : Sidney Plotkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520325729

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Gerald Berk
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1997-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801856365

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Berk concludes that our understanding of historical political economy must take markets, technologies, and organizational forms as the contingent outcomes of such constitutional politics, rather than as premeditated contexts for state and economic development.

Author : Peter J. Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1134261896

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There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.

Author : Paul Eric Teske
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780844738963

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This book examines the effects of government intervention on the operations of the freight transportation industry.