Author: Manu Karuka Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520296648 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 318
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Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
Author: Erol Tutumluer Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0203865286 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1562
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Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields focuses on issues pertaining to the bearing capacity of highway and airfield pavements and railroad track structures and provided a forum to promote efficient design, construction and maintenance of the transportation infrastructure. The collection of papers from the Eighth International Conference
Author: Putnam Weale Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131743143X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 160
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This title, first published in 1921, aimed to present for the reader a glance into what the position was in Eastern Asia at the beginning of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to student of history, politics and Asian Studies.
Author: Peter Steer Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 1399063197 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 304
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The popular image of railway travel during the Second World War is that of a sparse service of dirty and grossly overcrowded trains that were forever being delayed. The iconic ‘is your journey really necessary’ poster campaign is credited with discouraging the public from traveling by train. This book questions these assumptions and examines the mobility requirements of the British public during the war years and aligns these to the level of service provided by the railways. Throughout the war the railways were managed by the Railway Executive Committee (REC) whose members were all senior railway officers. The conflicts between the REC and the government in respect to controlling passenger numbers on the railway system, which was overcrowded with essential additional war related freight traffic, are examined; as are the propaganda campaigns aimed at restricting ‘unnecessary’ travel. The public’s response to the travel restrictions are analyzed to determine how railway passengers’ attitudes and reactions corresponded to the publicly accepted mythology. Many British citizens did reduce their railway journeys, but for others who had previously had little need to travel by train, the exigencies of war resulted in them having to make long and often difficult journeys by rail.
Author: Mark Chatterton Publisher: Hadleigh Books ISBN: 1910811688 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 8
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British Railway Trains & Stations Book Two - East Anglia gives details of fifteen different railway stations found in the area of East Anglia and the trains that pass through them. It includes the stations of Norwich, Colchester, Ipswich, Cambridge, Peterborough and Ely, and has many colour photographs
Author: Margaret Wise Brown Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0064435687 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Puff, Puff, Puff Chug, Chug, Chug Two little trains are heading West. One is a shiny, streamlined train, moving fast. The other is a little old train, moving not so fast. Both will travel through long dark tunnels, through snow and dust. What else can they have in common? Much more than you think!
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