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

By:

Kolko, Gabriel [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1965Description: 1 online resource (vii, 273 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400878741
1400878748
0691041679
9780691041674

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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

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

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