A history of the railroad in 100 maps
"From their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they lived and moved. Railroads rewrote not only the geography of the world but also the history of maps and mappin...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Origins
- Spreading the new age 1860-85
- Geopolitics and war 1885-1918
- Alongside road 1919-1939
- War and the air challenge 1939-1970
- Rail developments 1970-present
- Facing the future
- Rail and the collective imagination.
