Full Product Details
Author: Richard Saunders
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 4.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.934kg
ISBN: 9780875802657
ISBN 10: 0875802656
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 10 October 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
<p> Railroad history at its best. -- Trains <br><br> A superb source of U.S. railroad history and a must read for anyone with an interest in the railroad merger movement. -- The Michigan Railfan <p> Fascinating.... Saunders has done a masterful job of analyzing the merger movement, in all its complexities and complications. Serious students of railroad history will want to add it to their libraries, as will every college and university library. -- Railroad History <p> An invaluable source.... The introduction is the cleanest, clearest overview of the American railroad network that this reviewer has ever read. -- Choice
<p> Railroad history at its best. -- Trains <br><br> A superb source of U.S. railroad history and a must read for anyone with an interest in the railroad merger movement. -- The Michigan Railfan <p> Fascinating.... Saunders has done a masterful job of analyzing the merger movement, in all its complexities and complications. Serious students of railroad history will want to add it to their libraries, as will every college and university library. -- Railroad History <p> An invaluable source.... The introduction is the cleanest, clearest overview of the American railroad network that this reviewer has ever read. -- Choice
Railroad history at its best. -- Trains A superb source of U.S. railroad history and a must read for anyone with an interest in the railroad merger movement. -- The Michigan Railfan Fascinating.... Saunders has done a masterful job of analyzing the merger movement, in all its complexities and complications. Serious students of railroad history will want to add it to their libraries, as will every college and university library. -- Railroad History An invaluable source.... The introduction is the cleanest, clearest overview of the American railroad network that this reviewer has ever read. -- Choice
Author Information
Richard Saunders Jr. is professor emeritus of history at Clemson University. He is author of Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970, which won the 2002 George W. and Constance M. Hilton Award.
