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The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917 [Audiobook] download free by Albert J. Churella

The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917 Audiobook download free by Albert J. Churella
  • Listen audiobook: The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917
  • Author: Albert J. Churella
  • Release date: 2012/12/6
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780812243482
  • Rating: 8.13 of 10
  • Votes: 431
  • Review by: Matilda Creech
  • Review rating: 8.5 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/2
  • Duration: 12H4M37S in 256 kbps (193.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-03
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, AIFF, MPC, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC (compression TAR, TAR.Z, ZIP, RAR, CBC, RZ)
  • Total pages original book: 968
  • Includes a PDF summary of 113 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 1H23M (22.6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 'Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise,' Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. 'Think of it as a nation.' At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people-more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed 'Standard Railroad of the World,' this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation.Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Transport Industries, History Of The Americas, Trains & Railways, Railway Transport Industries
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 141.27 USD
  • Dimensions: 216x279x58.42mm
  • Weight: 2,902.99g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Pennsylvania, United States

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