H. Craig Miner
Auteur van Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000
Over de Auteur
Craig Miner is Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University.
Werken van H. Craig Miner
The corporation and the Indian : tribal sovereignty and industrial civilization in Indian Territory, 1865-1907 (1976) 21 exemplaren
The St. Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad: The Thirty-Fifth Parallel Project, 1853-1890, (1972) 12 exemplaren
Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920-1950 (1998) 8 exemplaren
The fire in the rock: A history of the oil and gas industry in Kansas, 1855-1976 (1976) 4 exemplaren
Pyramid on the Prairie: A History of the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, 1975-2000 (2012) 1 exemplaar
Wichita Union Station 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Miner, Harold Craig
- Geboortedatum
- 1944-10-12
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Opleiding
- Wichita State University (BA, MA)
University of Colorado (PhD) - Beroepen
- Assistant Professor of History, Wichita State University
- Organisaties
- Wichita State University
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A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the… door H. Craig Miner
While the role of the railroad in America as a catalyst for creating the modern society we've come to know and sometimes loath is not exactly news, what Miner does well is to trawl contemporary opinion's relation to the spread of the new technology. In particular, Miner reminds readers that those states that became the Confederacy were as active in the creation of the new transportation system as other regions of the country, just with the overriding concern of maintaining the existing structures of African-American slavery and keeping the federal government at bay.… (meer)
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