The first full-length history of the American grain elevator, from 1843 to 1943. Eight black and white illustrations, appendix, index, bibliography.
"We’re not imperialistic." Nonsense, says Niall Ferguson. In Colossus he argues that in both military and economic terms America is nothing less than the most powerful empire the world has ever seen.
The winning bidder—the only qualified bidder, in fact—was a joint venture of the Utah Construction Company, which had made its name laying track for the Union Pacific Railroad, and a firm owned by Harry Morrison, a former Reclamation ...
At the same time, Colossus gives perspective to the century-old debate over the corporation's place in the good society.
"We’re not imperialistic." Nonsense, says Niall Ferguson. In Colossus he argues that in both military and economic terms America is nothing less than the most powerful empire the world has ever seen.
Millers great book about Greece's people and their past.
Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities.
The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Bowers, Claude G. The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Brands, H. W. The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890's. Select Bibliography.
Willow Run: Colossus of American Industry
Colossus unpacks the intricacies and inequalities of economic, social and political life in India's capital, Delhi.