A History of Britain's Transport
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A History of Britain's Transport

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eBook - ePub

A History of Britain's Transport

About this book

Covers the evolution of transport history, from walking and packhorses to modern rail, motoring, and air travel. An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial national history. Passengers and freight will be covered including all types of transport from walking and packhorses, that predominated for much of national history, both of which tend to be underrated, to changes brought by improvements to road transport from the Romans to medieval bridgebuilders and eighteenth-century turnpikes, and, in parallel, river, coastal and canal travel, again from the Romans to the eighteenth century. The story moves to the age of rail, motoring and lastly air. All forms overlap. as well as being sequential.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface: The Importance of Culture
  7. Chapter 1: The Major Sweep
  8. Chapter 2: Sixteenth-Century Days
  9. Chapter 3: Seventeenth-Century Delays?
  10. Chapter 4: Toward Take-Off, 1700โ€“50
  11. Chapter 5: Turnpikes and Canals, 1750โ€“1800
  12. Chapter 6: Rail and the Rest, 1800โ€“1850
  13. Chapter 7: Speed and Volume, 1850โ€“1900
  14. Chapter 8: The Age of the Motorcar, 1900โ€“1950
  15. Chapter 9: Motorways, 1950โ€“2000
  16. Chapter 10: Modern Discontents
  17. Chapter 11: Postscript: into the Future
  18. Notes