Author: Alasdair Nairn
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: railroads, internet, investing, technology, markets, engines
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-12-21
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0471205958
ISBN-13: 9780471205951
"An intriguing study of the psychology and market dynamics underlying technology-based stock market manias." –Barry Riley, Financial Times "Engines That Move Markets is an insightful study into the history of technology and the lessons it has taught us. This book reveals in detail how technology has changed our economy, our markets, our society and the world we live in. Sandy Nairn has combined his talents as a scholar, analyst and investor to guide us through the past and help us understand where the future has yet to lead us." –Thomas L. Hansberger, CFA, President & CE
Author: Ian J. Kerr
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: history, transportation, society, moving, india, change, railroads, made, engines
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0275985644
ISBN-13: 9780275985646
The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains, by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world scene. Without her extensive railway network--completed against all odds by her British colonial masters--it is impossible to imagine what might have become of the diverse lands and peoples of the subcontinent. These railway networks brought them together as a colony; these networks fostered the nationalism that would be Britain’s downfall. This rail network both remade the physical landscape and brought social-cultural cohesion to a diverse and wide-rangi
Author: Sarah H. Gordon
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Keywords: american, life, transformed, railroads, union, passage
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-08-25
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1566632188
ISBN-13: 9781566632188
How the railroads transformed American life between 1829 and 1929, and why the cost of their achievements was so damaging tot he social and economic life of the nation.
Author: Theodore E. Keeler
Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr
Keywords: regulation, economic, activity, studies, policy, freight, public, railroads
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1983-03
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815748566
ISBN-13: 9780815748564
Author: Alfred Chandler
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: analyst, reformer, railroads, editor, business, varnum, poor, henry
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1981-06
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0405137672
ISBN-13: 9780405137679
Author: William D. Middleton
Publisher: Indiana UniversityPress
Keywords: railroads, past, present, america, transit, railways, rapid, metropolitan
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-12-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253341795
ISBN-13: 9780253341792
Early in the 19th century, growing American cities began to experience transportation problems. One solution was the horse-drawn streetcar, developed in 1832, but it soon proved inadequate. The first elevated train was transporting passengers above the streets of Manhattan by 1871; the first subway opened 25 years later in Boston; and similar systems soon followed in Philadelphia and Chicago. Rapid transit was confined to these few cities until after World War II, when a new generation of systems began to appear. In the 1970s, light rail became an economical alternative to conventional rapid t
Author: Christopher Rund
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: railroad, railroads, past, present, regional, new, rail, road, company, america, indiana
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253346924
ISBN-13: 9780253346926
The Indiana Rail Road Company is an extraordinary success story among the scores of independent short line and regional railroads spawned in the wake of railroad deregulation. Christopher Rund chronicles the development of the company, from its origins as part of America’s first land grant railroad, the Illinois Central, through the political and financial juggling required by entrepreneur Tom Hoback to purchase the line when it fell into disrepair. The company was reborn as a robust, profitable carrier and has become a new model for the American regional railroad. The Indiana Rail Road C
