The Great Railway Revolution (eBook)

The Epic Story of the American Railroad

Christian Wolmar (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-0-85789-779-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termini, built and controlled the biggest corporations in America. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, as the automobile and the aeroplane came to dominate American journey-making, the historic importance of the railroads began to be erased from America's hearts and minds. In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, of visionary pioneers and venal and rapacious railway barons. He also argues that while America has largely disowned this heritage, now is the time to celebrate, reclaim and reinstate it. The growth of the US railroads was much more than just a revolution in mode, speed and convenience. They united the far-flung components of a vast and disparate country and supercharged the economic development that fuelled its rise to world-power status. America was created by its railroads and the massive expansion of trade, industry and freedom of communication that they engendered came to be an integral part of the American dream itself.

Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of The Subterranean Railway (Atlantic Books). He writes regularly for the Independent and Evening Standard, and frequently appears on TV and radio on current affairs and news programmes. Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain was published by Atlantic Books in 2007.

Autor

Christian Wolmar is Britain's foremost writer and broadcaster on transport matters. He writes regularly for a wide variety of publications including the Independent, Evening Standard and Rail magazine, and appears frequently on TV and radio as a commentator. His previous books include the widely-acclaimed The Subterranean Railway, Fire and Steam, Blood, Iron and Gold and Engines of War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 2x8pp colour
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Andrew Roberts • Anthony Beevor • Blood • Blood, Iron and Gold • Engines of War • Fire and Steam • How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever • How the Railways Transformed Britain • How the Railways Transformed the World • Iron and Gold • Locomotives • locomotives in detail • locomotives of the southern railway • Patrick Bishop • Peter Ackroyd • railway books • Railways • Simon Winchester • southern railway • The Great Railway Revolution • The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway • The Subterranean Railway • To the Edge of the World • Trains • trains book • Trans-siberian railway
• ISBN-10: 0-85789-779-9 / 0857897799
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85789-779-4 / 9780857897794