Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific

Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific
Title Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific PDF eBook
Author Stuart Daggett
Publisher
Pages 518
Release 1922
Genre Pacific railroads
ISBN

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Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific

Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific
Title Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific PDF eBook
Author Stuart Daggett
Publisher
Pages 692
Release 1922
Genre
ISBN

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The Passenger Train in the Motor Age

The Passenger Train in the Motor Age
Title The Passenger Train in the Motor Age PDF eBook
Author Gregory Lee Thompson
Publisher Ohio State University Press
Pages 270
Release 1993
Genre Buses
ISBN 0814206093

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Based on previously unseen data, The Passenger Train in the Motor Age offers an illuminating portrait of a critical time in railroad history.

Justice Stephen Field

Justice Stephen Field
Title Justice Stephen Field PDF eBook
Author Paul Kens
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1997
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Outspoken and controversial, Stephen Field served on the Supreme Court from his appointment by Lincoln in 1863 through the closing years of the century. No justice had ever served longer on the Court, and few were as determined to use the Court to lead the nation into a new and exciting era. Paul Kens shows how Field ascended to such prominence, what influenced his legal thought and court opinions, and why both are still very relevant today. One of the famous gold rush forty-niners, Field was a founder of Marysville, California, a state legislator, and state supreme court justice. His decisions from the state bench and later from the federal circuit court often placed him in the middle of tense conflicts over the distribution of the land and mineral wealth of the new state. Kens illuminates how Field's experiences in early California influenced his jurisprudence and produced a theory of liberty that reflected both the ideals of his Jacksonian youth and the teachings of laissez-faire economics. During the time that Field served on the U.S. Supreme Court, the nation went through the Civil War and Reconstruction and moved from an agrarian to an industrial economy in which big business dominated. Fear of concentrated wealth caused many reformers of the time to look to government as an ally in the preservation of their liberty. In the volatile debates over government regulation of business, Field became a leading advocate of substantive due process and liberty of contract, legal doctrines that enabled the Court to veto state economic legislation and heavily influenced constitutional law well into the twentieth century. In the effort to curb what he viewed as the excessive power of government, Field tended to side with business and frequently came into conflict with reformers of his era. Gracefully written and filled with sharp insights, Kens' study sheds new light on Field's role in helping the Court define the nature of liberty and determine the extent of constitutional protection of property. By focusing on the political, economic, and social struggles of his time, it explains Field's jurisprudence in terms of conflicting views of liberty and individualism. It firmly establishes Field as a persuasive spokesman for one side of that conflict and as a prototype for the modern activist judge, while providing an important new view of capitalist expansion and social change in Gilded Age America.

The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985

The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985
Title The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 PDF eBook
Author Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 404
Release 1986
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781603441278

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Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword

Special Libraries

Special Libraries
Title Special Libraries PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 726
Release 1925
Genre Libraries
ISBN

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Most vols. include Proceedings of the Special Libraries Association.

E.H. Harriman

E.H. Harriman
Title E.H. Harriman PDF eBook
Author Lloyd J. Mercer
Publisher Beard Books
Pages 208
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781587981609

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1) half title page 2) blank page 3) full title page 4) copyright page Do not put Lightning logo on cover A CD of the complete book is to be furnished to Beard Books upon proof approval.