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Author
Title
Railroads and American law / James W. Ely, Jr.
Published
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2001]
Copyright
©2001
Call Number
KF2289 .E45 2002
ISBN
0700611444 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50661793
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
1
The Emergence of the Railroad
1
2
Civil War and Federal Land Grants
43
3
Regulatory Landscape of the Nineteenth Century
71
4
Arteries of Commerce
105
5
Law Governing Railroad Operations
117
6
Railroads and Social Conflict
135
7
Insolvency, Receiverships, and Commercial Practices
175
8
Property and Taxation
189
9
Liability for Personal Injury
211
10
Railroads in the Progressive Era
225
11
World War I and the Expansion of Federal Regulatory Authority
241
12
Tangled Labor Relations
251
13
Legal Problems of Railroad Decline
265
Epilogue
281
Notes
287
Bibliography
333
List of Cases Cited
351
Subject Index
357