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Autore |
Harwood Herbert H., Jr. |
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Titolo |
Invisible Giants [[electronic resource] ] : The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers / / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr |
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Bloomington and Indianapolis, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07242-0 |
9786612072420 |
0-253-11060-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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385.0922771 |
385/.092/2771 B |
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Soggetti |
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Railroads - Ohio - History |
Real estate development - Ohio - Cleveland - History |
Businessmen - Ohio |
Cleveland (Ohio) History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction; 1 Oasis in a Gritty City; 2 The Ideal Suburb; 3 Mr. Smith Sells a Farm; 4 Mr. Smith Sells a Railroad; 5 Shaping Solid Forms; 6 A Difficult Birth at the Public Square; 7 The Beginnings of an Empire; 8 To the South, East, and North; 9 Taking Stock: 1924; 10 Some Shadows Fleet By; 11 Building, Rebuilding, and Juggling; 12 Consolidation Anarchy I: The Maverick and the General; 13 Consolidation Anarchy II: The Street Fighter; 14 The Summit I: An Appalachian Peak in the Rockies; 15 The Summit II: Filling Out the Railroad Map |
16 The Summit III: Consummation in Cleveland-and a Jolt17 Completions and Complications; 18 Taking Stock: 1930; 19 Sudden Darkness; 20 The Rails Roll Downgrade; 21 A New World; 22 The Cruelest Year; 23 The Last Train; 24 Epilogue I: New Empires from Old; 25 Epilogue II: The Ghosts; Notes; Sources and Acknowledgments; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who |
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