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Railroaded : : the Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

White, Richard, 1947- Book - 2011 385.097 Wh 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xxxix, 660 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393061260
9780393342376

SUBJECTS
Railroads -- History -- 19th century.
Land settlement -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American.