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Author: Ryan Dearinger Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520960378 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.
Author: Ryan Dearinger Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520960378 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.
Author: Marcel Poupard Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0578035243 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 431
Book Description
A collection of retyped newspaper articles from 1836 through 1965. A great reference book for anyone who loves railroad history. Over 400 pages and hundreds of articles!
Author: John Franklin Jameson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic journals Languages : en Pages : 1032
Book Description
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Author: Charles Kettleborough Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 784
Book Description
Collects joint resolutions to change the Indiana constitution and related history for the period 1971-1980, including information concerning court cases, election results related to approval of proposed resolutions.
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