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Railroads and regulations, 1877-1916 / by Gabriel Kolko.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1965Description: 1 online resource (vii, 273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400878741
  • 1400878748
  • 0691041679
  • 9780691041674
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Railroads and Regulations, 1877-1916.DDC classification:
  • 385/.10973
LOC classification:
  • KF2289 .K65 1965eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • 15.87
  • 55.31
  • 55.85
  • QR 810
Online resources:
Contents:
In quest of stability, 1877-1883 -- Agitation for a federal railroad law, 1884-1886 -- Formative years of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-1890 -- Competition and crises: the failure of regulation, 1891-1897 -- Movement for reform, 1898 through the Elkins Act -- Pressures for railroad legislation, 1903-1905 -- The Hepburn Act -- Theodore Roosevelt and regulation, 1906-1908 -- Freight rates, politics and the President, 1909-1912 -- Woodrow Wilson and the triumph of federal control, 1913-1916.
Summary: An earlier draft was submitted as a doctoral thesis to the History Dept. of Harvard University. Bibliography: p. 241-264.
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In quest of stability, 1877-1883 -- Agitation for a federal railroad law, 1884-1886 -- Formative years of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-1890 -- Competition and crises: the failure of regulation, 1891-1897 -- Movement for reform, 1898 through the Elkins Act -- Pressures for railroad legislation, 1903-1905 -- The Hepburn Act -- Theodore Roosevelt and regulation, 1906-1908 -- Freight rates, politics and the President, 1909-1912 -- Woodrow Wilson and the triumph of federal control, 1913-1916.

An earlier draft was submitted as a doctoral thesis to the History Dept. of Harvard University. Bibliography: p. 241-264.

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