Blood, Iron & Gold
Blood, Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been isolated, stimulating both economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Christian Wolmar describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would one day span continents, as well as the labour of the navvies who built this global network. Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched - and destroyed - by the unrelenting construction and how they had a vital role in civil conflict, as well as in two world wars. Indeed, the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.
English edition · First published 2009 by Soundings Audio Books · ISBN 9781407915869
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English
- Blood, Iron & Gold · Soundings Audio Books · 2010 · ISBN 9781407915869 This page
- Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World · ISIS · 2010 · ISBN 9780753152508
- Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World · ISIS · 2010 · ISBN 9780753152492
- Blood, Iron & Gold · Soundings Audio Books · 2010 · ISBN 9781407915876
- Blood, Iron & Gold · Soundings Audio Books · 2010 · ISBN 9781407915852
- Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World · Atlantic · 2010 · ISBN 9781848871717
- Blood, Iron, & Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World · PublicAffairs · 2010 · ISBN 9781282744677
- Blood, Iron, & Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World · PublicAffairs · 2010 · ISBN 9781586488345
- Blood, Iron, & Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World · PublicAffairs · 2010 · ISBN 9786612744679
- Blood, iron, & gold · PublicAffairs · 2010 · ISBN 9781586489496
- Blood, Iron, & Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World · PublicAffairs · 2010 · ISBN 9781586488512
- Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World · Atlantic · 2009 · ISBN 9781848871700
- Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World · Atlantic · 2009 · ISBN 9781848874343
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