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Blood, iron, and gold : how the railroads transformed the world / Christian Wolmar.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HE1021 .W78 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolmar, Christian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--History.
- Railroads.
- History.
- Railroads--Social aspects--History.
- Railroads--Economic aspects--History.
- Social change--History.
- Social change.
- Railroads--Economic aspects.
- Railroads--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2010]
- Contents:
- The first railways
- Europe makes a start
- The British influence
- The American way
- Joining up Europe
- Crossing America
- ...and other continents
- The invasion of the railway
- The railway revolution
- Getting better all the time
- Changing trains
- Decline but not fall
- Railway Renaissance.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Atlantic Books"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Rupp fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781586488345
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