Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World
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Britain’s leading train expert tells the epic story of how the world’s railroads shaped commerce, cultures, and countries, and created the modern era The Washington Post - H. W. Brands Christian Wolmar has written previously on British railroads; here he takes his story global. And he makes the important point that the railroads were the driving force behind the first age of globalization, in the 19th century…Train-spotters and rivet-counters will delight in the details…
List of Maps and IllustrationsMaps1 The First Railways 12 Europe Makes a Start 173 The British Influence 454 The American Way 695 Joining Up Europe 996 Crossing America ... 1297 ... and Other Continents 1598 The Invasion of the Railway 1919 The Railway Revolution 21910 Getting Better All the Time 24711 Changing Trains 27312 Decline But Not Fall 29713 Railway Renaissance 319Notes 337Bibliography 355Index 361
