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| Author: | rogerfarnworth [ Sat Dec 13, 2025 1:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | David Gwyn; The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, |
A review of what Yale University Press calls, 'The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway.' http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/10/04/da ... haven-2023 I found this book to be easy to read and yet deeply scholarly. A superb, informative and enjoyable read! It is not too often that you find a railway history book as readable as a novel. It seems to me that it is possible that the individual chapters are developed from the text of a series of lectures on early railway history. The readable text is backed up by very comprehensive notes and references. There is also a wide-ranging bibliography. |
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