Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modern America
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
385.0973/WHITE,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxxix, 660 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0393061264 (hbk.), 9780393061260 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Genesis -- Annus horribilis : 1873 -- Friends -- Spatial politics -- Kilkenny cats -- Men in octopus suits -- Workingmen -- Looking backward -- Collapse -- Strike -- Creative destruction
A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War