H. Craig Miner
Author of Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000
About the Author
Craig Miner is Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University.
Works by H. Craig Miner
The Corporation and the Indian: Tribal Sovereignity and Industrial Civilization in Indian Territory, 1865-1907 (1976) 22 copies
The St. Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad: The Thirty-Fifth Parallel Project, 1853-1890, (1972) 16 copies
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- Legal name
- Miner, Harold Craig
- Birthdate
- 1944-10-12
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Wichita State University (BA, MA)
University of Colorado (PhD) - Occupations
- Assistant Professor of History, Wichita State University
- Organizations
- Wichita State University
- Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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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 show more structures of African-American slavery and keeping the federal government at bay. show less
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