{"product_id":"electric-indiana-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-worlds-greatest-interurban-railway-center-1893-1941-hardcover","title":"Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World's Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893-1941 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarlos Arnaldo Schwantes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only 90-mile remnant of this one great system still operating within Indiana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, \u003ci\u003eElectric Indiana\u003c\/i\u003e is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos Arnaldo Schwantes is author or editor of twenty books, as well as co-author (with Peter Hansen and Don Hofsommer) of \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851--1921. \u003c\/i\u003eHe grew up in Greenfield and Indianapolis, Indiana, and now lives in Missouri.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe is Saint Louis Mercantile Library Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, where he taught undergraduate and graduate history for exactly fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772380643616,"sku":"9780253067128","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/486fc0a0f0993183b53a30b5d6f2039b.webp?v=1780404386","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/electric-indiana-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-worlds-greatest-interurban-railway-center-1893-1941-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}