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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Transcontinental Railroad"”.
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Transcontinental Railroad Surveys of the 1850's
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The Slave South In The Far West: California, The Pacific, And Proslavery Visions Of Empire
… disunion ran west, and unless we account for the transcontinental and trans-Pacific ambitions of slaveholders, our understanding of the nation’s bloodiest conflict will remain incomplete. Whereas a number of important works have explored southern imperialism within the Atlantic Basin, surprisingly …
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
… uses geocriticism to argue that the American railroad is best understood as a set of discursively constructed railspaces formed through a variety of viewpoints, a polysensorial awareness of space, and stratified social relationships and power struggles. This study takes up four railspaces, the …
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Tiny Octopuses: The Successes, Struggles, and Failures of Short Lines and Branch Lines in Rural Nevada, California, and Oregon Between 1869 and 1920
… the story of the short line and branch line railroads that operated throughout Nevada, California, and Oregon between 1869 and 1920. After the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, numerous small railroads arose to link cities, towns, and rural stations to each other and …