Keefer / Nelles Philosophy of railroads and other essays

Railroad promotion and manipulation in the 19th century
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4875-8909-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Heritage

T.C. Keefer's Philosophy of Railroads isone of the greatest hymns of praise to the age of iron and steel ever written in North America. Better than any other document it shows why railroads were seen as the arteries of the Canadian nation during the nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keefer, T.C.

Nelles, H.V.

Über Autor(innen)

KeeferT.C.:
T.C. Keefer (1821-1914) was a prominent civil engineer and eloquent polemicist for technological progress.
NellesH.V.:
H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, and a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University.