TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ely, James W.
PY  - 2001
DA  - 2001//
TI  - Railroads and American law
PB  - Univ. Press of Kansas
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
KW  - Railroad law
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Railroads and state
AB  - The emergence of the railroad -- The Civil War and federal land grants -- Regulatory landscape of the nineteenth century -- Arteries of commerce -- Law governing railroad operations -- Railroads and social conflict -- Insolvency, receiverships, and commercial practices -- Property and taxation -- Liability for personal injury -- Railroads in the progressive era -- World War I and the expansion of federal regulatory authority -- Tangled labor relations -- Legal problems of railroad decline
SN  - 0700611444
LA  - English
N1  - James W. Ely, Jr
ID  - 330674021
ER  -