000438871 000__ 03798cam\a2200469Ia\4500 000438871 001__ 438871 000438871 005__ 20210513153004.0 000438871 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000438871 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000438871 008__ 120604s2011\\\\ctuab\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000438871 010__ $$z 2011020608 000438871 019__ $$a923596821$$a960201468$$a961609858$$a962609157$$a984650687$$a988421045$$a991948424$$a994453132$$a995020121 000438871 020__ $$a9780300171686$$q(electronic book) 000438871 020__ $$z9780300141078 000438871 020__ $$z0300141076 000438871 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn763161460 000438871 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509378 000438871 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420749 000438871 035__ $$a438871 000438871 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000438871 05014 $$aE491$$b.T53 2011eb 000438871 08204 $$a973.7/1$$223 000438871 1001_ $$aThomas, William G.,$$d1964- 000438871 24514 $$aThe iron way$$h[electronic resource] :$$brailroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America /$$cWilliam G. Thomas. 000438871 260__ $$aNew Haven [Conn.] :$$bYale University Press,$$cc2011. 000438871 300__ $$a1 online resource (281 p.) :$$bill., maps. 000438871 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000438871 5050_ $$aSlavery, the South, and "every bar of railroad iron" --- Railroads, the North, and "the velocity of progress" --- Secession and a modern war --- Fighting the Confederate landscapes --- The railroad war zones --- The Confederate nation "cut off from the world" --- The railroad strategy --- After emancipation --- Epilogue : the road to Promontory Summit. 000438871 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000438871 520__ $$a"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery, and the Civil War era, based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict. Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve their larger purposes, Thomas contends. Though railroads are often cited as a major factor in the Union's victory, he shows that they were also essential to the formation of "the South" as a unified region. He discusses the many--and sometimes unexpected--effects of railroad expansion and proposes that America's great railroads became an important symbolic touchstone for the nation's vision of itself. Please visit the Railroads and the Making of Modern America website at http://railroads.unl.edu"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000438871 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000438871 61010 $$aConfederate States of America.$$bArmy$$xTransportation. 000438871 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bArmy$$xTransportation$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000438871 650_0 $$aRailroads$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000438871 650_0 $$aRailroads$$zConfederate States of America$$xHistory. 000438871 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yCivil War, 1861-1865$$xTransportation. 000438871 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xTerritorial expansion$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000438871 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aThomas, William G., 1964-$$tIron way.$$dNew Haven : Yale University Press, 2011$$z9780300141078$$w(DLC) 2011020608$$w(OCoLC)711045598 000438871 8520_ $$bacq 000438871 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000438871 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 000438871 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3420749$$zOnline Access 000438871 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3420749$$zOnline Access 000438871 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:438871$$pGLOBAL_SET 000438871 980__ $$aEBOOK$$aEBOOK 000438871 980__ $$aBIB 000438871 982__ $$aEbook 000438871 983__ $$aOnline