Marrs Aaron (52 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. FINE HARDCOVER WITH DJ.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good +/Good +. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ Press. Good +/Good +. 2009. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 268, Inscribed by previous owner on front free-end page; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Photos & Illus.; Graphs and Tables. (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. A new tightly bound hardcover with new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.13 x 0.95 x 9.25 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes a bibliography and an index. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions.…

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hardcover. Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. :: An exploration of the social and cultural influence of steamboats and railroads in the first half of the nineteenth century. :: Bound in publisher's printed illustrated paper-covered boards, front board bears title and author in red blue and black over 1848 map detail. Title, author, and publisher's emblem lettered upon the spine in red, blue and black. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 3/16 inches; 235 x 157 millimeters). 262 pages. Condition: Fine. Book appears as-new.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. McAllister, William B.; Joshua Botts; Peter Cozzens; Aaron W. Marrs. Toward "thorough, accurate and reliable" : a history of the Foreign Relations of the United States series. United States Department of State, 2015. Paperback, Near Fine. Small scuff to base of spine. Binding strong and tight. vii, 374pp., contents clean and bright. This the first scholarly work on the historical development of FRUS. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

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Condition: New. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KNGT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . …

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: New. A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War.In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. Steamboats and railroads turned long-distance travel from an arduous undertaking into a regularized commodity: travel became something that people could purchase. Historians have long understood the economic and political ramifications of improved travel, but the social and cultural dimensions of early steam transit are less studied. In The American Transportation Revolution, Aaron W. Marrs explores the cultural influence of steamboats and railroads, which fascinated Americans across the country.Demonstrating the wide cultural reach of steam transit, Marrs draws from an eclectic set of sources, including children's books, comic almanacs, musical works, sermons, etiquette guides, cartoons, and employee rulebooks. This rich tapestry of cultural production helped "naturalize" steam technology for Americans before they ever encountered steam transit in person. Before ever seeing a railroad, Americans could read a novel that took place on a railroad, see an image of a train on currency, or purchase piano music imitating a train. These cultural artifacts made these new forms of transport feel familiar and natural.Marrs examines how cultural norms about travel emerged through the prescriptions of etiquette authors and the actions of travelers themselves, how enslaved people made innovative use of transportation networks to escape from slavery, and much more. Marrs convincingly demonstrates steam transportation's broad cultural impact on the United States, and how Americans, in turn, imprinted their own meaning on this new technology.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KNGT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Condition: New.