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Steam City : Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore /
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a "rail-road" that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Historical Studies of Urban America
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Introduction
- 1. The Urban Origins of the American Railroad
- 2. Tracks in the Streets
- 3. The Rise and Fall of the B&O Note
- 4. Straight Lines and Crooked Rates
- 5. The Smoking, Puffing Locomotive
- 6. Privatizing the B&O
- 7. The Railroad Unbound and the City Contained
- 8. The Great Strike
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: The Board of Directors during the Stockholder Revolt
- Abbreviations in the Notes
- Notes
- Index