The world the railways made
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The world the railways made
Bodley Head, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index
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Description
The modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was both sudden and universal: between 1825, when the first passenger service came into operation linking Stockton and Darlington, and the outbreak of World War I, railways redefined, transformed and expanded the limits of the civilized world. With railways came the development of modern capitalism, of modern nations, the opening-up of new regions from the American Mid-West to Siberia, from Lake Victoria to the pampas of Argentina, changing not only the way the world looked, but the way it felt. "The World the Railways Made" considers the effect this new technology had on the fabric of people's lives. For some the "Iron Road" represented the horrors of industrial development; for others it symbolized the way forward to a brighter future; for nearly all it meant deep and lasting change.
From the new breed of financiers who provided unprecedented amounts of capital, to the floating communities of Irish and Chinese who built them; from the paintings of Turner to the enriched and broadened diet that railways brought to all - Nicholas Faith's social history explores the railway revolution which turned the world upside-down.
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