Branch Line Empires

Author : Michael Bezilla
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029910
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Branch Line Empires written by Michael Bezilla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. Includes photographs

Author : Murat Özyüksel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737430
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire written by Murat Özyüksel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world - linking Constantinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and the its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject, and is essential reading for those interested in Industrial History, Ottoman Studies and the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I.

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473870410
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Empire written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence. It is often forgotten today that the British were responsible for the construction and management of a large proportion of the railways constructed in Africa, South America and Australasia not to mention many thousands of miles of mileage in Asia, India, Malaya, Burma, China and Japan. This book looks at the political, economic and technical aspects of this development, which made Britain a country at the forefront of this form of transport.

Author : Michael M. Bartels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942035964
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burlington Northern Railroad Branch Lines written by Michael M. Bartels and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Empire and the Trans-Siberian Railway ... written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hyde Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonization, Defence, and Railways in Our Indian Empire written by Hyde Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351028499
Total Pages : 1568 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1968 and 1989, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the British Empire and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine slavery in the British Empire, problems encountered in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as well as the Empire at its most powerful. This set will be of particular interest to students of British, colonial, and world history.

Author : John Richard Blakiston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of the British empire, a sequel to 'Glimpses of England'. written by John Richard Blakiston and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tatsuya Kageki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100084529X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire written by Tatsuya Kageki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this book provide an Asian women’s history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and the perceptions of the empire by the colonized, the authors present an eclectic history, unified by the perspective of gender studies and the spatial and political lens of the Japanese Empire. They look at the lives of women in,Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, Mainland China, Micronesia, and Okinawa, among others. These women were wives, mothers, writers, migrants, intellectuals and activists, and thus had a very broad range of views and experiences of Imperial Japan. Where women have tended in the past to be studied as objects of the imperial system, the contributors to this book study them as the subject of history, while also providing an outside-in perspective on the Japanese Empire by other Asians. A vital new perspective for scholars of twentieth-century history of East Asian countries and regions.