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The Filth of Progress - Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West (Hardcover)
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The Filth of Progress - Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West (Hardcover)
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The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known
American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in
the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while
canals and rail roads were built and lionized the capitalists who
financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted
from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the
suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as
outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal
and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of
American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825
to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads
in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans-the
Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens-whose labor
created the West's infrastructure and turned the nation's dreams of
a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals
and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving
spaces of conflict and contestation.
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