Railroads and Regulations, 1877-1916 (eBook)

Gabriel Kolko (Autor)

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2015
282 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7874-1 (ISBN)

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This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century. The continuity in governmental regulation from 1877 to 1900, in the Progressive Era, and in the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson are pointed out. The origin of each major federal railroad act and contending forces is analyzed. Federal regulation of the railroads, probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World War I is used as a key in reassessing the motives behind Progressivism.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Adamson Act • Albert B. Cummins • Amendment • andrew carnegie • Bankruptcy • bill of lading • Bureau of Corporations • Capitalism • Charles Evans Hughes • Charles Nagel • Charles W. Morse • Chauncey Depew • Chester I. Long • Chicago Tribune • commerce clause • Commerce Commission • Compromise of 1877 • congressional record • constitutional amendment • Continuance • Daniel Willard • demagogue • Eastern Railroad (Massachusetts) • Economic Power • Edgar E. Clark • Edward M. House • E. H. Harriman • Elkins Act • Fairfax Harrison • Farmers' Alliance • Federal Railroad Administration • Federal Trade Commission • Francis G. Newlands • Frederick J. Kimball • Freight rate • George Perkins • Gilded Age • Governor of Minnesota • Grenville M. Dodge • Harper's Weekly • Henry Cabot Lodge • Hepburn Act • Industrial society • injunction • insurance • Insurgency • International Harvester • Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 • Interstate Commerce Commission • Inter-State Commission • James J. Hill • James M. Landis • James Speyer • Jeffersonian Democracy • Joseph B. Foraker • Joseph L. Bristow • Judicial Activism • Legislation • Lehigh Valley Railroad • Liberalization • Louis Brandeis • Militant (Trotskyist group) • National Association of Manufacturers • National policy • National Railway • Nelson W. Aldrich • New Laws • New Nationalism • Orville H. Platt • Overcapitalization • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Politician • Populism • Radicalism (historical) • railway age • Regional railroad • Regulation • Richard Hofstadter • rule of reason • Samuel P. Huntington • steamship • Stephen Benton Elkins • stipulation • tariff • Tax • That Justice Be Done • Theodore Roosevelt • Thomas A. Scott • Thomas M. Cooley • transcontinental railroad • Wabash Railroad • Wayne MacVeagh • William B. Allison • William D. Bishop • William Howard Taft • william jennings bryan • William Mahone • William Z. Ripley • Woodrow Wilson • World War I
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7874-8 / 1400878748
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7874-1 / 9781400878741