LEADER 03829nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910457821403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-31971-3 010 $a9786613319715 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300171686 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063448 035 $a(OCoLC)763161460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10509378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538127 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335189 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538127 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10557206 035 $a(PQKB)11512308 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420749 035 $a(DE-B1597)485664 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300171686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420749 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509378 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL331971 035 $a(OCoLC)923596821 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063448 100 $a20110527d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe iron way$b[electronic resource] $erailroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America /$fWilliam G. Thomas 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14107-6 311 $a0-300-17168-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $tChapter 1: Slavery, The South, And "Every Bar Of Railroad Iron" -- $tChapter 2: Railroads, The North, And "The Velocity Of Progress" -- $tChapter 3: Secession And A Modern War -- $tChapter 4: Fighting The Confederate Landscapes -- $tChapter 5: The Railroad War Zones -- $tChapter 6: The Confederate Nation "Cut Off From The World" -- $tChapter 7: The Railroad Strategy -- $tChapter 8: After Emancipation -- $tEpilogue: The Road To Promontory Summit -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAppendix -- $tA Note On Sources -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aBeginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict.Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve their larger purposes, Thomas contends. Though railroads are often cited as a major factor in the Union's victory, he shows that they were also essential to the formation of "the South" as a unified region. He discusses the many-and sometimes unexpected-effects of railroad expansion and proposes that America's great railroads became an important symbolic touchstone for the nation's vision of itself.Please visit the Railroads and the Making of Modern America website at http://railroads.unl.edu. 606 $aRailroads$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRailroads$zConfederate States of America$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xTransportation 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRailroads$xHistory 615 0$aRailroads$xHistory. 676 $a973.7/1 700 $aThomas$b William G.$f1964-$01044172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457821403321 996 $aThe iron way$92469647 997 $aUNINA