Railroads and regulations, 1877-1916 / by Gabriel Kolko.
Material type: TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1965Description: 1 online resource (vii, 273 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781400878741
- 1400878748
- 0691041679
- 9780691041674
- Railroad law -- United States
- Railroads and state -- United States
- TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- Pictorial
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- Railroad law
- Railroads and state
- United States
- Chemins de fer -- Droit -- �Etats-Unis
- Chemins de fer -- Politique gouvernementale -- �Etats-Unis
- 15.85 history of America
- 55.31 history of trains and trams
- Eisenbahn
- USA
- Spoorwegmaatschappijen
- Regulering
- USA
- Geschichte 1877-1916
- 385/.10973
- KF2289 .K65 1965eb
- 15.85
- 15.87
- 55.31
- 55.85
- QR 810
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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