Simon Cordery

The Iron Road in the Prairie State

The Story of Illinois Railroading

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Produktbeschreibung

Simon Cordery researches, writes, and rides on railroads on both sides of the Atlantic. He is Chair of the History Department at Iowa State¿University and¿heads the Inductions Committee of the National Railroad Hall of Fame. A¿member of the Lexington Group in Transportation History,¿he has published two¿other¿books and numerous articles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 224mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9780253019066
• ISBN-10: 0253019060
• Artikelnr.: 42849832

Autorenporträt

Simon Cordery researches, writes, and rides on railroads on both sides of the Atlantic. He is Chair of the History Department at Iowa State University and heads the Inductions Committee of the National Railroad Hall of Fame. A member of the Lexington Group in Transportation History, he has published two other books and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Preliminaries
2. Development Delayed
3. Optimism Revived
4. Cultivating the Prairie
5. Financing Railroads
6. Civil War, Fire, and Expansion
7. Illinois Railroad Labor
8. A Kaleidoscope of Regulations
9. Panic and Innovation
10. Bridge Building and "Over-Building"
11. Excursions and Interurbans
12. Coal and Competition
13. Progressive Regulation
14. World War I and the 1920s
15. Depression, Dieselization, and War
16. Post-War Challenges
17. National Solutions?
18. Salvation
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index