The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway E
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Examines the ideological motivations for building the Canadian railway, the contemporary understandings of nationalism,
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In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects
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The murder in 1864 shocked the whole nation. On a busy London train on a humid summer’s evening, an elderly man, Thomas
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The railways symbolized the changes taking place in Britain as a result of the Industrial Revolution, and they themselve
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When, in the late 1980s, the federal government initiated a plan to deregulate the Canadian railway system, lobby groups
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A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history o
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This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland
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The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman Empire is explored through the
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