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The World the Railways Made - Christian Wolmar's Railway Library (Hardcover)
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The World the Railways Made - Christian Wolmar's Railway Library (Hardcover)
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Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian
pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began
with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and
universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and
industrialization to every corner of the planet. For some, the
'Iron Road' symbolized the brute horrors of modernity; for others
the way toward a brighter future. From 1825, when the first
passenger service linked Stockton and Darlington to the outbreak of
World War I, Nicholas Faith presents an engaging and entertaining
journey through the first century of rail, introducing visionaries,
engineers, surveyors, speculators, financiers and navvies - the
heroes and the rogues of the mechanical revolution that turned the
world upside down. The railway was the most important invention of
the 19th Century, and THE WORLD THE RAILWAYS MADE argues that in
the 21st Century, with high speed lines that can compete with air
travel and over 190 metro systems in 54 countries underpinning the
world's greatest cities, it remains just as relevant.
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