The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983

H. Craig Miner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2000
Texas A & M University Press (Verlag)
978-1-58544-048-1 (ISBN)

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In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a private company after twenty-three years in a receivership. In its past lay a collapsed rail empire, a sensational bankruptcy struggle that shattered dreams and betrayed trusts, an emotional battle over stockholders' interests, and the flamboyant maneuvers of the railroad's overseers. In its future lay two computerized, merger-dominated decades in which the railroad business would serve as a classic example of a tradition-bound industry forced to adapt to "future shock." The transition from crippled line to prime property would become, as one politician later put it, "a lawyers' paradise, and a security-holders' nightmare." H. Craig Miner, using a wealth of oral and written primary sources, with the cooperation of the company and complete access to records and personnel, describes and critically analyzes, the physical and financial revolution of the Missouri Pacific.

Craig Miner, the ""dean of Kansas history,"" is Willard Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. His books include the classic West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890 (see page 54) and, most recently, Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000 (see page 43).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2000
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, Maps.
Verlagsort	College Station
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-58544-048-5 / 1585440485
ISBN-13	978-1-58544-048-1 / 9781585440481
Zustand	Neuware