Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore (Historical Studies of Urban America) by David Schley
English | October 6th, 2020 | ISBN: 022672025X | 352 pages | EPUB | 2.28 MB
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a "rail-road" that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits.