num_pages: 368
description: The modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The change was both sudden and universal: between 1825 when the first passenger service came into operation in England and the outbreak of World War I railways redefined transformed and expanded the limits of the industrialized world. With railways came the development of modern capitalism new political and economic concepts of national unity and international connections. Railways opened up new regions from the American West to Siberia from Lake Victoria to the pampas of Argentina changing not only the way the world looked but the way it saw itself.The World The Railways Made recounts how railways intensified almost every experience: robbery romance sex speed warfare. Railways spawned the desire and measurement of the new. For some the Iron Road represented the horrors of industrial development; for others it symbolized the way toward a brighter future; for nearly all it meant deep and lasting change. From the different breed of capitalists who provided unprecedented amounts of capital to the floating communities of Irish and the Chinese who built them; from the paintings of Turner to the enriched and broadened diet that railways brought to all  Nicholas Faiths fascinating social; history explores this mechanical revolution which ushered in a new world.
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title: The World the Railways Made
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub