Railroad Stations The Buildings That Linked the Nation

Name: Railroad Stations The Buildings That Linked the Nation
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ISBN: 9780393731644

ISBN-10: 0393731642

ISBN-13: 9780393731644

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Naylor

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Almost overnight railway lines spread across our nation, assuming a key role in the country's development. Linking these lines that crisscrossed the map were the stations themselves, the very centerpieces#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;physical and metaphorical#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;of civic and cultural life in America. Railroad stations served as the backdrop not just to commonplace comings and goings but also to public lecturers and evangelists, rallies and wartime troop movements; they marked the outposts of western settlement and the staging grounds for presidential whistle-stop tours; and they served a new class of tourists that arose at the turn of the twentieth century. In more than 600 archival…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 8.78" wide x 11.22" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English