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Going Places – Transportation Redefines the Twentieth–Century West

Autor Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 mar 2003
It seems difficult even to imagine the modern West without reference to its planes, trains, and automobiles. Freeways define modern Los Angeles, as Route 66 still recalls the freedom of the open road. Seattle, long home to Boeing, gave birth to jetliners such as the 707. And once trains with glamorous names like The Sunset Limited and The Great Northern Flyer carried passengers in posh luxury through the grand vistas of the West. "Railways, highways, and skyways link landscapes both ordinary and sublime for tourists in search of scenic splendor," observes Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes. But those same corridors often leaven despair with opportunity for those who dream that the mobility brought by car, train, and plane will help them find better jobs or escape from their pasts.
Going Places looks at three major ways in which transportation has shaped the great Western landscape. There are the transformations brought about by a railroad right-of-way, highway corridors, waterways, and airports, and the larger impacts of transportation on the landscape, such as the development that followed the iron rails westward. Finally, Schwantes considers how travelers experience the passing landscape as framed by the windows of automobiles, passenger trains, and jetliners, and what that might mean. He examines the interconnections between railroad, highway, aviation, and waterways, and between society and modes of transportation. This masterful narrative travels the length and breadth of a vast space, with marvelous anecdotes and telling details that bring the story to life. More than 100 carefully selected photographs complement the text.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253342027
ISBN-10: 0253342023
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 103 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 189 x 262 x 39 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Preface and AcknowledgementsPrologue: The View from 29,000 Feet and BelowChapter One: Transportation Corridors Transform the WestChapter Two: When Railroads RuledChapter Three: Copper Connections and the Last Transcontinental RailroadChapter Four: Roads Stretching from Farm to Market, but Seldom BeyondChapter Five: The Emergence of New Corridors of PowerChapter Six: The Twentieth Century Transportation RevolutionChapter Seven: The New Overland RouteChapter Eight: Hard Choices for Hard TimesChapter Nine: Is this Trip Necessary? The Impact of World War IIChapter Ten: Auto Euphoria and Other Post-War EnthusiasmsChapter Eleven:The Sky's the LimitChapter Twelve:Reinventing the RailroadsConclusion:The Space of PlaceChapter NotesSources and Suggestions for Further Reading

Notă biografică

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is the St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor of Transportation Studies and the West at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Descriere

How trains, cars, and planes helped tame and transform the West.