The Best Transportation System in the World (häftad)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
344
Utgivningsdatum
2010-07-08
Förlag
University of Pennsylvania Press
Medarbetare
Seely, Bruce E. / Barret, Paul F.
Illustrationer
17 illus.
Dimensioner
226 x 152 x 23 mm
Vikt
540 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780812221169

Du kanske gillar

The Best Transportation System in the World (häftad)

The Best Transportation System in the World

Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

av Mark H Rose, Bruce E Seely, Paul F Barrett
Häftad Engelska, 2010-07-08
303
Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Specialorder (osäker tillgång). Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar.
  • Gratis frakt inom Sverige över 199 kr för privatpersoner.
The Best Transportation System in the World focuses on the centrality of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century, transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology. For example, in the mid-1950s, President Eisenhower, concerned about a railroad industry in decline, asked Congress to grant railroad executives authority to modify prices and service even as he introduced the legislation that provided for the national highway system. And as early as the 1960s, presidents across the political spectrum, including Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, sought broad deregulation of the transportation industry in order to prime the economic pump or, in the 1970s, reverse stagflation. At every turn, the authors contend, political considerations served to shape the businesses and infrastructure that Americans use to travel.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. The Best Transportation System in the World
  2. +
  3. The Art of War

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt The Art of War av Sun Tzu (häftad).

Köp båda 2 för 362 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av författarna

Recensioner i media

The authors have ambitiously tackled a massive topic and have succeeded in showing the complexities of regulatory policies over an extended period, grasping the 'big picture.'. . . This type of study is long overdue, filling a void in the literature of American transportation history. * Roger Grant, <i>Enterprise and Society</i> * This important book argues persuasively that it was history and politics, not markets and competition, that determined public policy toward transportation from 1920 to 1980. Skillfully pulling together the histories of the various modes of transportation, the book makes the case that politics was more significant even than technical expertise-invariably, the work of experts was bested by politics. * William H. Becker, George Washington University *

Övrig information

Mark H. Rose is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. Bruce E. Seely is Professor of History at Michigan Technological University. Paul F. Barrett was Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Introduction Ch.1. Seeking a new regulatory regime in transportation: railroad consolidation in the 1920s Ch. 2. The new transportation problem: the politics of transportation coordination, 1925-1940 Ch. 3. Constructing commercial aviation, 1944-1973 Ch. 4. Run-up to deregulation: surface transportation, 1949-1970 Ch. 5. Transportation in a "Presidential Nation" Ch. 6. Richard M. Nixon and planning for deregulation, 1970-1974 Ch. 7. Gerald R. Ford and presidential deregulation, 1974-1977 Ch. 8. Jimmy Carter and deregulation of the "best transportation system in the world," 1977-1980 Ch. 9. The American state and transportation Conclusion Acknowledgments