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Philosophy of railroads and other essays
Railroad promotion and manipulation in the 19th century
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T.C. Keefer
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Edited by:
H.V. Nelles
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English
Published/Copyright:
1972
About this book
T.C. Keefer's Philosophy of Railroads is one 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.
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Keefer T.C. :
T.C. Keefer (1821-1914) was a prominent civil engineer and eloquent polemicist for technological progress.
Nelles H.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.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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Part 1 : Philosophy of Railroads
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Part 2: Montréal
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Part 3: A sequel to the Philosophy of Railroads
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Part 4: Railways
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eBook published on:
December 15, 1972
eBook ISBN:
9781487589097
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250
eBook ISBN:
9781487589097
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
