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1	Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 more books like this by Barbara Young Welke, Christopher Tomlins (Editor) add to wishlist Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Recasting American Liberty offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and their urban counterpart, streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the 20th century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
2	Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916 more books like this by Gabriel Kolko add to wishlist see all copies from $7.14! new only from $15.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway Volume 1, 1920-1932 more books like this by Alfred C Mierzejewski add to wishlist The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the centre of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. The second volume of the history of the Reichsbahn offers an account of the national railway under Hitler's regime. Miersejewski uses sources that include Nazi ... see all copies from $18.75! new only from $42.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America's Passenger Trains more books like this by Joseph Vranich add to wishlist Amtrak - once called a "national experiment" - is a failure, In End of the Line, the first comprehensive analysis of the railroad's performance since the Amtrak Reform Act became law in 1997, Joseph Vranich shows that it is time to replace Amtrak with private operators in order to save rail passenger service in America. Contrary to the public ... see all copies from $2.83! new only from $14.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	National Dream more books like this by Pierre Berton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Albert Schram add to wishlist This book relates the history of Italian railways with special regard to their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until nationalization in 1905. It shows that while the Italian state interfered continuously in railway matters, it was nevertheless incapable of creating viable conditions for ... see all copies from $31.56! new only from $31.56! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age more books like this by Frank Dobbin add to wishlist The United States, France, and Britain use markedly different kinds of industrial policies to foster economic growth. To understand the origins of these different policies, this book examines the evolution of public policies governing one of the first modern industries, the railroads. The author challenges conventional thinking in economics, ... see all copies from $27.20! new only from $27.20! \| SVS
8	Railroads: Rates and Regulation more books like this by William Z. Ripley add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $32.99! \| first editions
9	Principles of railway transportation more books like this by Eliot Jones add to wishlist PRINCIPLES OF RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON 1 CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN fc CO., LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO PRINCIPLES OF RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION BY ELIOT JONES, PH. D. PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS IN STANFORD UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OP THE TRUST PROBLEM ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $37.93! \| SVS
10	The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway more books like this by Alfred C Mierzejewski add to wishlist In this book, Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning and intelligence, including the first complete analysis in English of the German National ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $24.56! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The National Dream.: The Last Spike more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13	Railroads and American Law more books like this by James W Ely add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $17.34! new only from $43.07! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Wartime on the Railways more books like this by David Wragg add to wishlist From the American Civil War onwards, railways have been an important aspect of war. While the first interest by the military in railways in Britain was intended primarily for internal security, the Boer War saw massive movement of men and their horses over the London and South Western Railway and through its port at Southampton. So important were ... see all copies from $16.71! new only from $25.86!
15 view cover	Off the Rails: Britain's Great Rail Crisis - Cause, Consequences and Cure more books like this by Andrew Murray add to wishlist This analysis of the disastrous consequences of private ownership of the railways draws extensively on the author's access to the testimonies of those who work on the railways - the train drivers, signal and maintenance workers,as well as station staff and passengers. The run-up to last October's Hatfield disaster and the subsequent and ongoing ... see all copies from $5.79! new only from $12.50!
16	A history of transportation in Canada. more books like this by G. P. de T. Glazebrook add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $18.21! \| first editions
17 view cover	To a High Court: The Tumult and Choices That Led to United States of America V. Scrap more books like this by Neil Thomas Proto add to wishlist 26.00 see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00!
18	The Railway Game more books like this by J Lukasiewicz add to wishlist see all copies from $4.96! new only from $9.95!
19	Railroads, Freight, and Public Policy more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $6.88! new only from $31.54!
20 view cover	Britain's Railway, 1997-2005: Labour's Strategic Experiment more books like this by Terry Gourvish add to wishlist Britain's leading railway historian provides a critical examination of the Blair governments' involvement in the rail industry from 1997 as they attempted to deal with the UK's fragmented, privatized railways. The book focuses particularly on the work of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), and considers the role of individuals - John Prescott, ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75! \| SVS
21 view cover	History of the Grange movement, or, The farmer's war against monopolies being a full ... account of the struggles of the American farmers against the extortions of the railroad companies, with a history of the rise and progress of the order of Patrons... more books like this by James Dabney McCabe add to wishlist see all copies from $29.64! new only from $29.64! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Recasting American Liberty more books like this by Barbara Young Welke, Christopher Tomlins (Editor) add to wishlist Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Recasting American Liberty offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and their urban counterpart, streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the 20th century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $71.50!
23	Close Ties more books like this by Ken Cruikshank add to wishlist Focusing on the historic controversies surrounding freight rates, Close Ties explores the ways in which Canadians tried to regulate the nation's first big business, the railways. Ken Cruikshank challenges earlier interpretations, concluding that the history of railway regulation in Canada is not a story of powerful business corporations using ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.25! \| first editions
24	A History of the English Railway: Its Social Relations & Revelations 1820-1845 more books like this by Dr. John Francis add to wishlist see all copies from $18.95! first editions
25	Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897-1917 more books like this by Albro Martin add to wishlist see all copies from $28.00! signed copies \| first editions

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