This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this third volume explores the railways through Eurasia.
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Volume III Continental Eurasia
- Part 1 Mentalité and the machine ensemble: France and colonies
- Part 2 Pathbreakers and stone breakers: Belgium, Holland, and colonies
- Part 3 Incongruous Eisenbahn : railways in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and colonies
- Part 4 Italia, España, Lusitania: railways in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and colonies
- Part 5 Iron roads to the iron mountains of Scandinavia: railways in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark
- Part 6 Railways among the ruins: Greece, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Czechoslovakia, and Serbia
- Part 7 Russian prologues, dialogues, travelogues
- Part 8 Strategic Russian railways, resources, and representations
- Part 9 Test of the Russian will: the Trans-Siberian Railway
- Part 10 The iron road meets the silk road: railways in Japan and China
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