The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

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Автор: William G. Thomas III

Название: The Iron Way Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

Издательство: Yale University Press

Год: 2011

ISBN: 0300141076

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 294

Формат: PDF

Размер: 4,52 МБ

Описание: Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict.

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