04776nam 2200709 450 991046163910332120200520144314.00-520-96037-810.1525/9780520960374(CKB)3710000000465869(EBL)2025606(SSID)ssj0001543497(PQKBManifestationID)16134762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001543497(PQKBWorkID)14399665(PQKB)10644989(MiAaPQ)EBC2025606(DE-B1597)519921(OCoLC)972506277(DE-B1597)9780520960374(Au-PeEL)EBL2025606(CaPaEBR)ebr11092775(CaONFJC)MIL825407(OCoLC)919123886(EXLCZ)99371000000046586920170124h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe filth of progress immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West /Ryan DearingerFirst edition.Oakland, California :University of California Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (310 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28460-7 0-520-28459-3 Includes bibliographical references and index."Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress."In America's historical imagination, toil and triumph against nature and overwhelming odds characterizes such achievements as the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad. Triumph transformed canal and railroad entrepreneurs into visionaries whose work brought the nation bountiful riches and did the Lord's bidding. Celebrated for their spirit and perseverance in 'building' the nation's infrastructure, they found respect for looking to tomorrow and creating a future. For generations, most indexes of American history supported and reinforced this narrative of progress. Yet, if this is the historical memory, it is conveniently stunted. What of those whose bodies strained and broke under the load of such glories? What of those men beyond the din and fanfare who only appear in old photographs with faces blurred and indistinguishable? In their lives and deaths in the mud, muck, and mountains is another history of American achievement. These barely visible and forgotten, ordinary men, 'unskilled' immigrants from Ireland and China, Mormons, and native-born American workingmen rank, as well, as the creators of national growth and progress. Their experiences and voices, along with those of the privileged and well-connected, are the subjects of this study. I examine the rise of Western canals and railroads to national prominence through the menial labor of countless men, largely hidden from view because they left virtually no paper trail, who strung together livelihoods at the economic fringes of society. This book examines the contest for control of American progress and history as distilled from the competing narratives of canal and railroad construction workers and those fortunate enough to avoid this fate"--Provided by publisher.Canal construction workersUnited StatesHistoryRailroad construction workersUnited StatesHistoryForeign workersUnited StatesHistoryCanalsUnited StatesHistoryRailroadsUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Canal construction workersHistory.Railroad construction workersHistory.Foreign workersHistory.CanalsHistory.RailroadsHistory.331.6/20978Dearinger Ryan1979-1034945MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461639103321The filth of progress2454371UNINA02045nam 2200373Ia 450 99639675650331620200824131941.0(CKB)4940000000056509(EEBO)2264184946(OCoLC)ocm12157953e(OCoLC)12157953(EXLCZ)99494000000005650919850614d1685 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery[electronic resource] the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion /by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King[London s.n.]Printed Anno Domini, 1685[10], 79, [1], 8 pMarginal notes.T.p. data from NUC pre-1956."Roman-Catholick principles" by James Corker has separate signatures & paging; also issued separately.Imperfect: item at reel 598:2 lacking t.p. in filmed copy; item at 983:10 lacks all after p. [1] (3rd grouping); item at reel 983:11 lacks all after p. 79.Reproductions of originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and Union Theological Seminary Library (New York, N.Y.).eebo-0113Gother Johnd. 1704.821390Corker James Maurus1636-1715.1004123EAAEAAm/cWaOLNBOOK996396756503316A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery2306206UNISA