Name: Railways (en Inglés)
Price: 19.05 USD
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Author: Wolmar, Christian
ISBN: 9781788549851

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Christian Wolmar

Editorial

Apollo Publishing International

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.0 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9781788549851

Categorías

Historia social y cultural
Autobuses, tranvías y vehículos comerciales
Sistemas ferroviarios urbanos

Railways (en Inglés)

Christian Wolmar (Autor) · Apollo Publishing International · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Railways (en Inglés)"

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled people and goods to move around the world more quickly than ever before, and played a critical role in warfare as well as in the social and economic spheres. Christian Wolmar describes the emergence of modern railways in both Britain and the USA in the 1830s, and elsewhere in the following decade. He charts the surge in railway investment plans in Britain in the early 1840s and the ensuing 'railway mania' (which created the backbone of today's railway network), and the unstoppable spread of the railways across Europe, America and Asia. Above all, he assesses the global impact of a technology that, arguably, had the most transformative impact on human society of any before the coming of the Internet, and which, as it approaches two centuries of existence, continues to play a key role in human society in the twenty-first century. 'A lucid and engaging account of the far-reaching effects that trains have had upon society' The Railway & Canal Historical Society