Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World - Softcover

Wolmar, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586489496 ISBN 13: 9781586489496

Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2011

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Book by Wolmar Christian

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CHOICE Magazine, January 2011 "The book is gracefully written, incorporates leading secondary sources, and includes intelligently selected illustrations...Highly recommended."

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The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labour conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and labourers responsible for its creation.

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• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1586489496
• ISBN 13: 9781586489496
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432