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02618aam a2200433 i 4500 001 19A7E53CBFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220419010024 008 200127s2020 iluab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020004121 020 $a 022672025X 020 $a 9780226720258 035 $a (OCoLC)1139030842 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d YDX $d CGU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-md 050 00 $a HE2781.B35 $b S35 2020 082 00 $a 385.09752/6 $2 23 100 1 $a Schley, David, $e author. 245 10 $a Steam city : $b railroads, urban space, and corporate capitalism in nineteenth-century Baltimore / $c David Schley. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 318 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Historical studies of urban America 563 $3 Copy 1. $a Binding: Includes dust-jacket. $5 ICU 520 $a "David Schley crafts a fresh history not just of capitalism in Baltimore but of industrial capitalism itself, attending to the impacts of railroad development on the politics, geography, and image of cities, in a time when railroads were considered public-spirited undertakings. The inherent tensions-between private and public, profit and public good, image and function- were numerous and profound. By the time the railroad was implanted in the landscape, it had become the very embodiment of blind, grasping, confining capitalism. The iron cage is made of iron rails, and the iron rails define the streets, which confine the people"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-300) and index. 505 0 $a The Urban Origins of the American Railroad -- Tracks in the Streets -- The Rise and Fall of the B&O Note -- Straight Lines and Crooked Rates -- The Smoking, Puffing Locomotive -- Privatizing the B&O -- The Railroad Unbound and the City Contained -- The Great Strike. 610 20 $a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. 610 27 $a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00535260 650 0 $a Railroads $z Baltimore $z Baltimore $x History. 650 0 $a Capitalism $z Baltimore. $z Baltimore. 650 7 $a Capitalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00846425 650 7 $a Railroads. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01088711 651 7 $a Maryland $z Baltimore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204292 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Historical studies of urban America. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018022912.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=19A7E53CBFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search