TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,William G.
TI  - The iron way: railroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America 
SN  - 9780300171686
AV  - E491 .T53 2011eb
U1  - 973.7/1 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Army
KW  - Transportation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Railroads
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Expansion territoriale
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue -- Part I: Tools. Slavery, the South, and "every bar of railroad iron" ; Railroads, the North, and "the velocity of progress" -- Part II: Leviathan. Secession and a modern war ; Fighting the Confederate landscapes ; The railroad war zones ; The Confederate nation "cut off from the world" ; The railroad strategy -- Part III: Vortex. After emancipation -- Epilogue : The road to Promontory Summit -- Appendix : Tables
N2  - "Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict. Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve their larger purposes, Thomas contends. Though railroads are often cited as a major factor in the Union's victory, he shows that they were also essential to the formation of "the South" as a unified region. He discusses the many--and sometimes unexpected--effects of railroad expansion and proposes that America's great railroads became an important symbolic touchstone for the nation's vision of itself. Please visit the Railroads and the Making of Modern America website at http://railroads.unl.edu"--
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