The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917 (American Business, Politics, and Society) by Albert J. Churella - 2012-07-01

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012-09-26. hardcover. Used: Good.

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Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press. VG/VG Oversize. Faint Soiling FFEP & Fore-Edge. All Text & Photos Clean, Binding Tight. DJ In Mylar Wrap. Pages: 945.. 2013. 1st Printing. Hardcover..

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people--more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as… Read More

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012-09-26. hardcover. Used:Good.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. Like New/Excellent Dust Jacket. 8x2x11. A Nice Clean, Square, Unmarked Copy ; Both Book and Dust Jacket are just about As New. This thick, oversized hardcover book has 945 pages including many photos and illustrations. The copyright page shows 2013 as the published date. We always ship in a sturdy box.

University of Pennsylvania Press. New. 2012. hardcover. Dust Jacket is Fine. In publisher's shrinkwrap. New.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight. Red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated in B&W. 945 pp. Includes maps and index. First and only published volume of what is to become a set. "Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation" - from dust jacket.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As new/as new. University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013. first printing. 945pp., index, notes, black and white illustrations, photographs, maps. Thick 4to. As new unread hardcover, as new d/j.