Railroaded
The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxxix, 660 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
Contents:
Genesis -- Annus horribilis : 1873 -- Friends -- Spatial politics -- Kilkenny cats -- Men in octopus suits -- Workingmen -- Looking backward -- Collapse -- Strike -- Creative destruction.
Subjects:
Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Land settlement -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American.
Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Land settlement -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American.
ISBN:
0393061264 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRANSPORT Rail Whi | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-642) and index.