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Rainbow's End
The Crash of 1929
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 2003
636 kr
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Few single events have affected business and society in the US so profoundly, and in such a short time. There have also been few books that address both these elements of the crash together, and very little published on the subject in the past decade. In this book, a gifted narrative historian with …
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Av Maury Klein
Inbunden, 2011
1091 kr
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Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most …
Rainbow's End
The Crash of 1929
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2003
302 kr
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Rainbow''s End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street''s greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, …
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2011
755 kr
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Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein''s monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most …
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2011
755 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein''s monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most …
Rainbow's End
The Crash of 1929
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2003
302 kr
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Rainbow''s End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street''s greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, …
Days of Defiance
Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2013
158 kr
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“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” — The Cleveland Plain Dealer In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled, and …
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 2007
418 kr
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This book, first published in 2007, offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870-1920, which mark the dawn of modern big business. It focuses on four major revolutions that ushered in this new era: those in power, transportation, communication, and …
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920
Av Maury Klein
Inbunden, 2007
731 kr
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This book, first published in 2007, offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870-1920, which mark the dawn of modern big business. It focuses on four major revolutions that ushered in this new era: those in power, transportation, communication, and …
Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 2011
709 kr
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To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, …
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Av Maury Klein
Inbunden, 2003
533 kr
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After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River …
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2014
227 kr
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An updated, in-depth history of the rise and fall of the L&N Railroad that serviced the southeastern United States.After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world …
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2014
227 kr
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An updated, in-depth history of the rise and fall of the L&N Railroad that serviced the southeastern United States.After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world …
Union Pacific
Volume II, 1894-1969
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 2006
282 kr
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The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, one of the worst depressions Americans had yet experienced, which pushed the railroad into bankruptcy. Maury Klein examines the complex challenges faced by the Union Pacific in the new century—the …
Flowering of the Third America
The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850–1920
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 1993
124 kr
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In a provocative new interpretation of a transforming era in American history, Maury Klein examines the forces that turned the United States from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial one. Integrating social, economic, and business history, he stresses the driving role of technology …
Power Makers
Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2010
173 kr
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Maury Klein is one of America''s most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers , he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent bulb; …
Call to Arms
Mobilizing America for World War II
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2013
327 kr
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world''s history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the …
Stealing Games
How John Mcgraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2016
228 kr
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The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of …
Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2003
2527 kr
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To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, …
Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
Av Maury Klein
E-bok, 2003
423 kr
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To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, …
Union Pacific
Volume I, 1862-1893
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 2006
282 kr
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The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry today. The laying of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the continent to settlement but also the …
