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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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: The Importance of Culture
- Chapter 1: The Major Sweep
- Chapter 2: Sixteenth-Century Days
- Chapter 3: Seventeenth-Century Delays?
- Chapter 4: Toward Take-Off, 1700โ50
- Chapter 5: Turnpikes and Canals, 1750โ1800
- Chapter 6: Rail and the Rest, 1800โ1850
- Chapter 7: Speed and Volume, 1850โ1900
- Chapter 8: The Age of the Motorcar, 1900โ1950
- Chapter 9: Motorways, 1950โ2000
- Chapter 10: Modern Discontents
- Chapter 11: Postscript: into the Future
- Notes