Railroad Crossing

Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

Autor: William Deverell

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of California Press

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Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron hor...

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Autor

William Deverell

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1996

strony

278

EAN

9780520205055

ISBN

0520205057

Enbook ID

04616139

Wydawca

University of California Press

Waga

408

Wymiary

153 x 227 x 21

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Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. "Railroad Crossing" is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth. Americans clamored for the progress and prosperity that railroads would surely bring, and no railroad was more crucial for California than the transcontinental line linking East to West. With Gold Rush prosperity fading, Californians looked to the railroad as the state's new savior. But social upheaval and economic disruption came down the tracks along with growth and opportunity. Analyzing the changes wrought by the railroad, William Deverell reveals the contradictory roles that technology and industrial capitalism played in the lives of Americans. That contrast was especially apparent in California, where the gigantic corporate 'Octopus' - the Southern Pacific Railroad - held near-monopoly status. The state's largest employer and biggest corporation, the S.P. was a key provider of jobs and transportation - and wielder of tremendous political and financial clout. Deverell's lively study is peopled by a rich and disparate cast: railroad barons, newspaper editors, novelists, union activists, feminists, farmers, and the railroad workers themselves. Together, their lives reflect the many tensions - political, social, and economic - that accompanied the industrial transition of turn-of-the-century America.

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