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The Railway Man
Author | : Eric Lomax |
Publsiher | : Charnwood |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Large type books |
ISBN | : 1444819852 |
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During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred, and unable to form relationships, Lomax suffered for years - until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened. Almost 50 years after the war his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive; their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
The Railway and Modernity
Author | : Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Chemins de fer |
ISBN | : 3039110241 |
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Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.
The Railway King of Canada
Author | : R. B. Fleming |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780774853910 |
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During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada's best known entrepreneurs. He Spearheading some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada, he built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. But when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
The Railway Chronicle
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : DMM:057003576019 |
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The Railway Times
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1430 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105215956165 |
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Legislative History of the Railway Labor Act as Amended 1926 Through 1966
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2448 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Collective labor agreements |
ISBN | : UOM:39015073493051 |
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The Railway Shareholder s Manual Second edition
Author | : Henry TUCK |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020470760 |
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Report of the Railway Rates Commission 7th May 1895
Author | : Canada. Railway Rates Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : WISC:89096848627 |
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