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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Carlos Arnaldo SchwantesPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm ISBN: 9780253067128ISBN 10: 025306712 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 August 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsCarlos Schwantes is an historian with a passion for electric railways. This book provides a lively and well-researched study of the Interurban Era in Indiana, a banner traction state. As such he fills a void in the interurban literature. Electric Indiana is a work that general readers and professional and amateur historians can learn from and fully enjoy. --H. Roger Grant, Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History, Clemson University """Carlos Schwantes is an historian with a passion for electric railways. This book provides a lively and well-researched study of the Interurban Era in Indiana, a banner traction state. As such he fills a void in the interurban literature. Electric Indiana is a work that general readers and professional and amateur historians can learn from and fully enjoy.""--H. Roger Grant, Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History, Clemson University ""Carlos Schwantes' extensive research focused on the industry leaders is a significant departure from existing literature resulting in considerable new knowledge being published on the rise and fall of the electric interurban railways of Indiana.""--Norman Carlson, Managing Editor, First & Fastest. ""With 2,000 miles of interurban track, Indiana led the nation in offering low-cost, efficient public transportation. Carlos Schwantes combines fascinating details with broad analysis to explain the popularity of electric-powered interurbans and the disruption brought by roads, cars, and buses. Beautifully illustrated, Electric Indiana will appeal to scholars, transportation enthusiasts, and the general reader.""--James H. Madison, Author of Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana" Author InformationCarlos Arnaldo Schwantes is author or editor of twenty books, as well as co-author (with Peter Hansen and Don Hofsommer) of Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851–-1921. He grew up in Greenfield and Indianapolis, Indiana, and now lives in Missouri. He is Saint Louis Mercantile Library Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, where he taught undergraduate and graduate history for exactly fifty years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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