Going Places Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West

Name: Going Places Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West
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ISBN: 9780253342027

ISBN-10: 0253342023

ISBN-13: 9780253342027

Edition: 2003

Authors: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

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Carlos Schwantes covers the transformations brought about by a railroad right-of-way, highway corridors, waterways and airports, and the larger impacts of transportation on the landscape, such as the development that followed the iron rails westward.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/10/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 2.464
Language: English

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is the St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor of Transportation Studies and the West at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.



Preface and Acknowledgements


Prologue: The View from 29,000 Feet and Below



Transportation Corridors Transform the West



When Railroads Ruled



Copper Connections and the Last Transcontinental Railroad



Roads Stretching from Farm to Market, but Seldom Beyond



The Emergence of New Corridors of Power



The Twentieth Century Transportation Revolution



The New Overland Route



Hard Choices for Hard Times



Is this Trip Necessary? The Impact of World War II



Auto Euphoria and Other Post-War Enthusiasms



The Sky's the Limit



Reinventing the Railroads


Conclusion:The Space of Place


Chapter Notes


Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading