Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics – serie
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Back on Track
American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1965–2015
Av Mark Aldrich
Inbunden, 2018
715 kr
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A fascinating account of one of America’s most important industries and its dangers.Throughout the early twentieth century, railroad safety steadily improved across the United States. But by the 1960s, American railroads had fallen apart, the result of a regulatory straightjacket that eroded …
Dead Tree Media
Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America
Inbunden, 2018
609 kr
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A deep and timely account of how American newspapers were produced and distributed on paper.Winner of the Best Book in Canadian Business History by the Canadian Business History AssociationPopular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim that some have taken to calling them “dead tree …
Engineering Rules
Global Standard Setting since 1880
Av JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy
Inbunden, 2019
771 kr
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The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have …
Moving Violations
Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States
Av Lee Vinsel
Inbunden, 2019
781 kr
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The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States.Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by drawing …
Engineering Rules
Global Standard Setting since 1880
Av JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy
Häftad, 2021
478 kr
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The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have …
Sovereign Skies
The Origins of American Civil Aviation Policy
Av Sean Seyer
Inbunden, 2021
771 kr
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A pathbreaking history of the regulatory foundations of America's twentieth-century aerial preeminence.Winner of the 2026 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsToday, the federal government possesses unparalleled authority over …
Havoc and Reform
Workplace Disasters in Modern America
Inbunden, 2021
659 kr
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How disasters—that have wrecked work sites throughout American history, in all parts of the nation and all sectors of the economy—have also inspired policy reform.Workplace disasters have wreaked havoc on countless American workers and their families. They have resulted in widespread death and …
Land and Liberty
Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism
Av Christopher William England
Inbunden, 2023
737 kr
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A comprehensive history of Henry George and the single tax movement.In 1912, Sun Yat-sen announced the birth of the Chinese Republic and promised that it would be devoted to the economic welfare of all its people. In shaping his plans for wealth redistribution, he looked to an American now largely …
Courteous Capitalism
Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930
Inbunden, 2023
764 kr
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A provocative history of how corporate titans in the 1920s used a massive public relations campaign to transform public opinion on big business.In the early twentieth century, as Americans erupted in righteous indignation over the flagrant abuses of big business, utility executives faced an …
Spanning the Gilded Age
James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge
Inbunden, 2024
403 kr
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The fascinating history of the St. Louis Bridge, the first steel structure in the world.Winner of the 2025 Captain Donald T. Wright Award for Maritime Journalism and Literature by the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways LibraryIn Spanning the Gilded Age, John K. Brown tells the daring, …
Rise and Fall of King Coal
American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940
Av Mark Aldrich
Inbunden, 2025
764 kr
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A history of the dynamic role of coal in the energy landscape of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.In The Rise and Fall of King Coal, Mark Aldrich explores the pivotal role of coal in the historical energy landscape of the United States. Meticulously researched and …
Spare Parts
A Global History of a Modern Problem, 1940–1980
Häftad, 2026
742 kr
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How repair components of machines reconstructed the distribution networks that connected production to consumption globally.When machines break, entire systems are exposed. Spare Parts tells the global history of replacement components and shows how their absence—or abundance—has shaped warfare, …
Double Verdict
Imposters and Identity-Switching in American Society
Av Clifton Hood
Inbunden, 2027
800 kr
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A sweeping history of imposture, identity, and the contested boundaries of self-invention in America.Americans have long celebrated the idea that people can reinvent themselves. But who has been allowed to do so, and who has been condemned for trying? In Double Verdict, historian Clifton Hood …
Movable Markets
Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City
Inbunden, 2019
604 kr
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The untold story of America's wholesale food business.In nineteenth-century America, municipal deregulation of the butcher trade and state-incorporated market companies gave rise to a flourishing wholesale trade. In Movable Markets, Helen Tangires describes the evolution of the American wholesale …
Train and the Telegraph
A Revisionist History
Av Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
Inbunden, 2019
661 kr
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A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century.To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, …
