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Philosophy of railroads and other essays: Railroad promotion and manipulation in the 19th century
ISBN: 9781487589097
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Transportation Studies;

T.C. Keefer's Philosophy of Railroads is one of the greatest hymns of praise to the age of iron and steel ever written in North America. Better than any other document it shows why railroads were seen as the arteries of the Canadian nation during the nineteenth century.

T.C. Keefer (1821-1914) was a prominent civil engineer and eloquent polemicist for technological progress.
Nelles H.V. :

H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, and a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University.