Augustus J Veenendaal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1218337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Augustus J Veenendaal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Augustus J |
| FAMILY NAME | Veenendaal |
| SIGNATURE | VEENENDAAL A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scientific Council for Government Policy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The City and the Railway in Europe (review)
Reviewed by: The City and the Railway in Europe Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. (bio) The City and the Railway in Europe. Edited by Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino. Aldershot, Hants., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xxxvi+287. $79.95. In Ashgate's series Historical Urban Studies, Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino have brought together fourteen chapters that address the influence of railway construction on the development of cities and vice v…
The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914 (review)
The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914. By Allan Mitchell. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. Pp. xv+328. $69.95
Bahnen und Berge: Verkehrstechnik, Tourismus und Naturschutz in den Schweizer Alpen, 1870-1939 (review)
In this study Wolfgang König sets out to examine the interaction between the development of railways, emerging tourism, and environmental problems in the Swiss Alps before World War II. He concentrates on Davos in Graubünden, Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, and Zermatt in Wallis. Railways in these three regions had very different histories
Die Geschichte der Bahnen in Vorarlberg (review)
Vorarlberg is the westernmost tip of the present republic of Austria, bordered on the south by the Rhaetian Alps, on the west by the Upper Rhine, in the north by the Bodensee (also known as Lake Constance) and Bavaria, and in the east by the Arlberg mountain chain. The Rhine Valley is flat and fertile, and has been a popular thoroughfare in past centuries. The Romans used it to march their legions into Germania and established a fortress on the b…
American Culture in the Netherlands
Journal Article American Culture in the Netherlands. Ed. by Doeko Bosscher, Marja Roholl, and Mel van Eiteren. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996. vi, 196 pp. Paper. $34.95, ISBN 90-5383-305-6.) Get access Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. Institute of Netherlands History, The Hague, Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, Septem…
Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Railroad historians have long been aware of Dutch investment in the building of American railroads, but how extensive was that investment? This book reveals for the first time that, because of the frequent failure of railroad companies to meet their debt obligations, several railroads were for a time completely in Dutch control. Though Dutch capitalists initially believed they had discovered a shortcut to El Dorado by buying American railroad sec…
The Kansas City Southern Railway and the Dutch Connection
While the fact of Dutch capitalist involvement in building and operating the American railroad network in the nineteenth century is relatively well known, the ways in which the Amsterdam capital market was tapped by American railroad companies or their representatives have remained relatively obscure. In this article, Dr. Veenendaal, using hitherto unknown archival material, explains how the promoter of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad …
De briefwisseling van Anthonie Heinsius, 1702-1720
The Opening Phase of Marlborough's Campaign of 1708 in the Netherlands: A V ersion F rom D utch S ources
Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Railroad historians have long been aware of Dutch investment in the building of American railroads, but how extensive was that investment? This book reveals for the first time that, because of the frequent failure of railroad companies to meet their debt obligations, several railroads were for a time completely in Dutch control. Though Dutch capitalists initially believed they had discovered a shortcut to El Dorado by buying American railroad sec…
The Opening Phase of Marlborough's Campaign of 1708 in the Netherlands: A V ersion F rom D utch S ources
De briefwisseling van Anthonie Heinsius, 1702-1720
The Kansas City Southern Railway and the Dutch Connection
While the fact of Dutch capitalist involvement in building and operating the American railroad network in the nineteenth century is relatively well known, the ways in which the Amsterdam capital market was tapped by American railroad companies or their representatives have remained relatively obscure. In this article, Dr. Veenendaal, using hitherto unknown archival material, explains how the promoter of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad …
Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Railroad historians have long been aware of Dutch investment in the building of American railroads, but how extensive was that investment? This book reveals for the first time that, because of the frequent failure of railroad companies to meet their debt obligations, several railroads were for a time completely in Dutch control. Though Dutch capitalists initially believed they had discovered a shortcut to El Dorado by buying American railroad sec…
American Culture in the Netherlands
Journal Article American Culture in the Netherlands. Ed. by Doeko Bosscher, Marja Roholl, and Mel van Eiteren. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996. vi, 196 pp. Paper. $34.95, ISBN 90-5383-305-6.) Get access Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. Institute of Netherlands History, The Hague, Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, Septem…
Die Geschichte der Bahnen in Vorarlberg (review)
Vorarlberg is the westernmost tip of the present republic of Austria, bordered on the south by the Rhaetian Alps, on the west by the Upper Rhine, in the north by the Bodensee (also known as Lake Constance) and Bavaria, and in the east by the Arlberg mountain chain. The Rhine Valley is flat and fertile, and has been a popular thoroughfare in past centuries. The Romans used it to march their legions into Germania and established a fortress on the b…
Bahnen und Berge: Verkehrstechnik, Tourismus und Naturschutz in den Schweizer Alpen, 1870-1939 (review)
In this study Wolfgang König sets out to examine the interaction between the development of railways, emerging tourism, and environmental problems in the Swiss Alps before World War II. He concentrates on Davos in Graubünden, Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, and Zermatt in Wallis. Railways in these three regions had very different histories
The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914 (review)
The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914. By Allan Mitchell. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. Pp. xv+328. $69.95
The City and the Railway in Europe (review)
Reviewed by: The City and the Railway in Europe Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. (bio) The City and the Railway in Europe. Edited by Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino. Aldershot, Hants., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xxxvi+287. $79.95. In Ashgate's series Historical Urban Studies, Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino have brought together fourteen chapters that address the influence of railway construction on the development of cities and vice v…
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