Railroad Wars of New York State, New York, Paperback

Description: Railroad Wars of New York State, New York, Paperback New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars began as soon as the first line was chartered between Albany and Schenectady when supporters of the Erie Canal tried to block the new technology that would render their waterway obsolete. After the first primitive railroads overcame that hurdle, they began battling with one another in a series of rate wars to gain market share. Attracted by the success of the rails, the most powerful and cunning capitalists in the country--Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Daniel Drew and other robber barons--joined the fray. Timothy Starr's account of New York's railroad wars steams through the nineteenth century with stories of rate pools, labor strikes, stock corners, legislative bribery and treasury plundering the likes of which the world had never seen.

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MPN: 9781609497279

Book Title: Railroad Wars of NY State

Item Length: 9in

Item Height: 0.4in

Item Width: 6in

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Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Railroads / History, Sociology / General, General, Economic Conditions, Railroads / Pictorial, Business

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Publication Year: 2012

Genre: Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Transportation, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science

Item Weight: 0.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 160 Pages