In the Unlikely Event: Danger and the Transportation Revolution in America
abstract: This study is a cultural history of danger, disaster, and steam-powered transportation in nineteenth-century America. The application of steam power to transportation, a globally transformative innovation, had particular influence in the early United States. A vast American continent with...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.40305 |