The World the Railways Made

by Faith, Nicholas

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London: Bodley Head Ltd., 1990. Apparent First Edition, very slightly bumped corner and spine bottom, and sunning of page edges; price-intact dust jacket has a little edge wear, two small tears at bottom [1.3" + 1"] and slight staining on the inside. 32 pages of B&W photographs; Indexed; Bibliography and Notes. 360 pp. The publisher says: "The modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was both sudden and universal.: between 1825, when the first passenger service came into operation linking Stockton and Darlington [in Northern England] and the outbreak of World War I, railways redefined, transformed and expanded the limits of the civilised world. With railways came the development of modern capitalism, of modern nations, the opening up of new regions from the American Mid-West to Siberia, from Lake Victoria to the pampas of Argentina, changing the way the world not only looked but the way it felt." Faith's book is apparently the first book that looks at the effects that this technologyhad on the fabric of people's lives.. Apparent First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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