Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World Wolmar Christian
Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World Wolmar Christian The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. With unrelenting…
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Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World Wolmar Christian
The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles.
From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and laborers responsible for its
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