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Blood, Iron and Gold – How Railways Transformed the World

Christian Wolmar’™s Blood, Iron and Gold is an innovative history of how railways have shaped and transformed the modern world. The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution which saw railways rapidly spread across the world.Wolmar shows how the rise of the train stimulated daring feats of engineering, architectural innovation and the rapid movement of goods and people around the world, linking cities hitherto isolated and stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. Wolmar shows how cultures have been enriched and destroyed by the coming of the age of rail and states his case that the global expansion of the railways underpinned nothing less than the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.

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