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Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0448467127 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive!
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0448467127 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive!
Author: Marlene Targ Brill Publisher: ediciones Lerner ISBN: 0822577844 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : es Pages : 52
Book Description
Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Author: Oscar Zanetti Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807866431 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 538
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Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through the 1959 Revolution. More broadly, the book uses the development of the Cuban rail transport system to provide a fascinating perspective on Cuban history, particularly the story of its predominant agro-industry, sugar. While railroads facilitated the sugar industry's rapid growth after 1837, the authors argue, sugar interests determined where railroads would be built and who would benefit from them. Zanetti and Garcia explore the implications of this symbiotic relationship for the technological development of the railroads, the economic evolution of Cuba, and the lives of the railroad workers. As this work shows, the economic benefits that accompanied the rise of railroads in Europe and the United States were not repeated in Cuba. Sugar and Railroads provides a poignant demonstration of the fact that technological progress alone is far from sufficient for development.
Author: John O'Mara Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1538248905 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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A transcontinental railroad spanning the United States was once thought to be impossible. After a practical route was found, about 1,800 miles of track were laid from Nebraska to California in just 6 years. This railroad changed the nation, connecting the East and West Coast and making travel and communication easier than ever. Readers will be fascinated by the amazing tale of this railroad and the striking photographs that support this accessible narrative.
Author: Budd Bailey Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1502626365 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 66
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People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.
Author: Elisa Peters Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1477767827 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Kids love trains, and this beginner’s look at train travel is sure to keep readers chugging through the pages. Key terms and historical facts are presented in simple language. Big, exciting pictures of trains on the go complement the text.
Author: Michael Matthews Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496209044 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 349
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In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country’s booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation’s status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico’s railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination. In The Civilizing Machine Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people’s understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad’s development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, “order and progress.” The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author: Marlene Targ Brill
Author: Marcelo Meneses Jurado
Author: Marlene Targ Brill
Author: Oscar Zanetti
Author: Fred Wilbur Powell
Author: John O'Mara
Author: Budd Bailey
Author: Elisa Peters
Author: Michael Matthews