The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 : : Building an Empire, 1846-1917 / / Albert J. Churella.
"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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Business, Politics, and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (968 p.) :; 92 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. The Way West 1682-1826
- Chapter 2. Commonwealth 1826-1846
- Chapter 3. Community 1846
- Chapter 4. Enterprise, 1846-1852
- Chapter 5. Executive, 1852-1857
- Chapter 6. Coordination, 1857-1860
- Chapter 7. Expansion, 1850-1868
- Chapter 8. Conflict 1860-1868
- Chapter 9. Empire, 1868-1876
- Chapter 10. Connections, 1865-1873
- Chapter 11. Limits, 1874-1877
- Chapter 12. Order, 1877-1899
- Chapter 13. System, 1889-1929
- Chapter 14. Regulation, 1899-1910
- Chapter 15. Terminus, 1917
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments