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  • The Civil War in Georgia

    A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

    Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and ... Leer más

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  • The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 2

    The Age of Limits, 1917–1933

    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    By 1933, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been in existence for nearly ninety years. During this time, it had grown from a small line, struggling to build west from the state capital in Harrisburg, to the dominant transportation company in the United States. In Volume 2 of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Albert J. Churella continues his history of this giant of American transportation.At the beginning of ... Leer más

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  • The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1

    Building an Empire, 1846-1917

    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    "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 ... Leer más

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  • The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 3

    The Long Decline, 1933–1968

    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    The final volume of Albert J. Churella's landmark series, The Pennsylvania Railroad, concludes the story of the iconic transportation company, covering its long decline from the 1930s to its merger with the New York Central Railroad in 1968.Despite some parallels with World War I, the experience of World War II had a substantially different impact on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The introduction of ... Leer más

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  • From Steam to Diesel

    Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry

    Series series Princeton Studies in Business and Technology
    This overview of the leading locomotive producers in the United States during the twentieth century shows how they responded to a radical technological change: the replacement of steam locomotives by diesels. The locomotive industry provides a valuable case study of business practices and dramatic shifts in innovation patterns, since two companies--General Motors and General Electric--that had no ... Leer más

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  • The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1

    Building an Empire, 1846-1917

    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    "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 ... Leer más

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  • Encyclopedia of North American Railroads

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

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  • The First Tycoon (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

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