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Author : Fairfax Harrison
Release : 1901
Genre : Railroads
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Book Synopsis A History of the Legal Development of the Railroad System of Southern Railway Company by : Fairfax Harrison
Download or read book A History of the Legal Development of the Railroad System of Southern Railway Company written by Fairfax Harrison. This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 1921
Genre : Railroads
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Book Synopsis Supplement to Legal History of the Lines of Railroad of Southern Railway Company by :
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Author : James W. Ely, Jr.
Release : 2001-12-06
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Railroads and American Law by : James W. Ely, Jr.
Download or read book Railroads and American Law written by James W. Ely, Jr.. This book was released on 2001-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Author : Tom Murray
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Genre : Southern Railway
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Book Synopsis Southern Railway by : Tom Murray
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Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Release : 2005-10-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Iron Confederacies by : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Download or read book Iron Confederacies written by Scott Reynolds Nelson. This book was released on 2005-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.
