BLOOD IRON & GOLD - HARDBACK

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Presents the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. This title reveals that the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world

Contents:

• List of Maps and Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Maps
• 1 – The First Railways
• 2 – Europe Makes a Start
• 3 – The British Influence
• 4 – The American Way
• 5 – Joining Up Europe
• 6 – Crossing America…
• 7 - … And other Continents
• 8 – The Invasion of the Railway
• 9 – The Railway Revolution
• 10 – Getting Better All the Time
• 11 – Changing Trains
• 12 – Decline but Not Fall
• 13 – Railway Renaissance
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index

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