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Empire's Tracks
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Manu Karuka
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-29 - Publisher: University of California Press

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Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes,
Empire's Tracks
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Manu Karuka
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-05 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes,
Empire Express
Language: en
Pages: 1432
Authors: David Haward Bain
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's
The Trouble with Empire
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Antoinette M. Burton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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While imperial blockbusters fly off the shelves, there is no comprehensive history dedicated to resistance in the 19th and 20th century British Empire. The Trou
Making Tracks
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Terry Pindell
Categories: Railroad travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Grove Press

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The author relates his journey across America aboard passenger trains, recalls the tales of noted figures in the history of American railroading, and highlights