Death Rode the Rails - American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965
American Railroad Accidents And Safety, 1828-1965
- Editore:
Johns Hopkins University Press
- EAN:
9780801882364
- ISBN:
0801882362
- Pagine:
- 528
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Death Rode the Rails - American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965
For most of the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks.
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