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First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xiv, 368 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly soiled; several small chips, nicks, tears, and creasing at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Black cloth spine with gilt stamped lettering; light toning to gray boards; rear board soiled at lower left; spine ends bumped with small dings near center of each board's bottom edge. Deckle fore-edge; slight soiling to top edge; purple speckling to bottom edge likely indicative of publisher's remainder marking. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a very good- dust jacket. ISBN 0385144938. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. Stavba Pacificke zeleznice, ktera propojila Ameriku 1863-1869. Iniciatorem a hlavnim propagatorem stavby, ktera ve sve dobe nemela obdoby, byl jeste pred svym zvolenim prezidentem Spojenych statu zeleznicni pravnik Abraham Lincoln ze statu Illinois. Nebylo vsak lehke prosadit do zivota myslenku spojeni vychodniho a zapadniho pobrezi mlade republiky; v ceste staly nejen prekazky zemepisneho charakteru - mohutne reky, nedohledne a puste plochy Velke prerie, nebetycne horske hrebeny - ale predevsim politicka situace, totiz napeti mezi prumyslnym a svobodomyslnym Severem a zemedelskym a otrokarskym Jihem, ktere posleze vyustilo v obcanskou valku mezi Unii a Konfederaci (1861-1865). I v teto hospodarsky a politicky nesmirne obtizne situaci dokazal Abraham Lincoln jiz jako sestnacty prezident Spojenych statu (1861) s pomoci Theodora Judaha a generala Grenvillea M. Dodgea prosadit v Kongresu schvaleni navrhu zakona o Pacificke zeleznici. Jeho podpisem z 1. cervence 1862 vstoupil zakon v platnost. Tim take skoncilo vice nez tricetilete obdobi hledani a volby vhodne trasy k tichomorskemu pobrezi.…