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4 produkter
Iron Road in the Prairie State
The Story of Illinois Railroading
Inbunden, 2016
700 kr
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In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts …
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Raising Cain and Consciousness
E-bok, 2011
331 kr
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A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the …
Gilded Age Entrepreneur
The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman
Inbunden, 2025
731 kr
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Simon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman. The influential but little-known older brother of George Pullman and the craftsman of the family, Albert designed the first luxurious Pullman railroad cars and hosted promotional trips …
Mother Jones
Raising Cain and Consciousness
Häftad, 2010
260 kr
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This is a life touched by tragedy and deprivation - childhood in her native. Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking …
