Railroads and American Law
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700611444 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stover, Author of American Railroads; "An incredibly ambitious book from a master at writing about sweeping legal topics in a meaningful and readable way." Paul Kens, Author of Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial . There is nothing else available that covers this subject, or even comes close." Lawrence M. Friedman, Author of A History of American Law; "A unique and wide-ranging book on a relatively untouched subject that should appeal to anyone interested in the history of the American railroad." John F. "A monumental achievement - it should be on the shelves of every railroad, economic, and legal historian." Herbert Hovenkamp, Author of Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937; "Fills a large void in the field of legal history
His other books include The Guardian of Every Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights and The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Underwood Professor of Law and professor of history at Vanderbilt University. . is Milton R. James W. Ely Jr. Fuller, 1888-1910
Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail.Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.. No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900 At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike—situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions—the railroad and American law—had a profound influence on each other.Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of
A definitive study This fine book is, as Herbert Hovenkamp has called it, "a monumental achievement." If Ely has missed a connection between railroad law and any other important topic in American legal history, I am unaware of it--everything from the use of slaves to build railroads to insolvency, receive. Railroads and American Law J. Lindner James Ely's Railroads and American Law investigates then relationship between the courts and America's first "big business" and the impact railroads had on the American legal landscape. Ely states in the introduction how he wants to avoid stating a thesis (which seems to be a typical la