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Indlæser... The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917af Albert J. Churella
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Enfin un livre qui tente de nous relater l'histoire de ce géant qu'est le Pennsylvania RR. Il existait bien d'autres histoires de commande, d'autres livres sur ce chemin de fer qui abordait des questions partielles, mais aucun n'avait osé aborder le sujet avec le point de vue de l'Historien, c'est-à-dire, avec un œil critique et un recoupement continuel des faits. Un gros reproche toutefois à ce livre massif: les notes nombreuses occupent 112 pages à la fin du livre. On aurait espérer l'insertion de deux signets mobiles permettant de garder à la fois la page du texte que l'on vient de lire et celle des notes correspondantes. ( ) I'll keep this short and sweet. If you like to read about organization, finances, inter railroad relationships and politics then one would read this. It goes into everything in extreme detail. I just couldn't read anymore of it. It will become a reference book. I'll be interested to see what Volume II will be like. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people-more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820's to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)385.09748Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Trains and Railroads Subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography North America Northeastern U.S. PennsylvaniaLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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