Railway Empire: How the British Gave Railways to the World 1473843693, 9781473843691

The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America 9781442678460

Examines the ideological motivations for building the Canadian railway, the contemporary understandings of nationalism,

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British Steam: Military Connections: Great Western Railway, Southern Railway, British Railways & War Department Steam Locomotives 9781473853300, 9781473853294, 1473853303

In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects

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The First British Railway Murder

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 Railway Haters: Opposition To Railways, From The 19th To 21st Centuries 1526700204, 9781526700209, 1526700220, 9781526700223

The railways symbolized the changes taking place in Britain as a result of the Industrial Revolution, and they themselve

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The Philosophy of Railways : The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America [1 ed.] 9781442678460, 9780802041616

When, in the late 1980s, the federal government initiated a plan to deregulate the Canadian railway system, lobby groups

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A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830–1930 Vol. II: The British Empire [2] 9780815377221, 9781351211840, 9780815377528, 9781351211765

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Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World 9780520975088

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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How to be a Railway Signalman 9781782819073

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The British Empire 9780191512360, 9780192892935

The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines,

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Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure 9780300228472

The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman Empire is explored through the

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