An account of the introduction of gas and electricity to the "instant cities" of Kansas and Denver in the late 19th century. The book describes how the technology spread quickly to homes, urged on by the prevailing attitudes of cleanliness, comfort and gender.
Market Rules explains in accessible language how federal laws, regulatory rulings, and bankers' decisions shaped the financial industry as it existed at the time of the 2008 financial crisis.
This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.
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