American Railway Accounting

American Railway Accounting
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1925
Genre: Railroads
ISBN:

Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco

Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 970
Release: 2023-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382507129

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Catalogue of the Library

Catalogue of the Library
Author: Mercantile Library Association (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 976
Release: 1874
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN:

Recasting American Liberty

Recasting American Liberty
Author: Barbara Young Welke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2001-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521649667

Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the dangers of modern life. Gender and race become central to the transformation charted here, as much as the forces of corporate power, modern technology and urban space.