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Railroad Crossing : Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 by William Deverell (1994, Hardcover)

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Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth. Americans clamored for the progress and prosperity that railroads would surely bring, and no railroad was more crucial for California than the transcontinental line linking East to West. With Gold Rush prosperity fading, Californians looked to the railroad as the state's new savior. But social upheaval and economic disruption came down the tracks along with growth and opportunity. Analyzing the changes wrought by the railroad, William Deverell reveals the contradictory roles that technology and industrial capitalism played in the lives of Americans. That contrast was especially apparent in California, where the gigantic corporate "Octopus"--the Southern Pacific Railroad--held near-monopoly status. The state's largest employer and biggest corporation, the S.P. was a key provider of jobs and transportation--and wielder of tremendous political and financial clout. Deverell's lively study is peopled by a rich and disparate cast: railroad barons, newspaper editors, novelists, union activists, feminists, farmers, and the railroad workers themselves. Together, their lives reflect the many tensions--political, social, and economic--that accompanied the industrial transition of turn-of-the-century America.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520082141
ISBN-13
9780520082144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
429637

Product Key Features

Book Title
Railroad Crossing : Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
Author
William Deverell
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Railroads / History, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY)
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Transportation, History
Number of Pages
278 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
He2771.C2.D48 1994
Copyright Date
1994
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
92-040128
Illustrated
Yes

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