Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833-1879 9780895035042, 9780895032911

Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports : The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill Of 1838 9780895035073, 9780895032669

By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and many hundreds injured by exploding steam engines on steamboats.

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Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail: Races and rivalries on the nineteenth century high seas 1472900286, 9781472900289

In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fie

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State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies 9781481302739, 9781481302746, 9781481300513, 2013048779

State of the Marital Union documents the transformations of public identity occurring in American society through a clos

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Twilight Rails : The Final Era of Railroad Building in the Midwest [1 ed.] 9780816673667, 9780816665624

By the start of the twentieth century railroads crisscrossed the nation, yet there were still those who believed that th

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Freethinkers of the Nineteenth Century

A book which includes subjects so diverse needs some sort of explanation — perhaps even some sort of apology. It was con

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Dundurn Railroad Bundle: In Search of the Grand Trunk / Rails Across Ontario / Rails Across the Prairies / The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore 9781459728363

Ron Brown is Canada's leading literary authority on the history of Canada's railroads, particularly those now-

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The Accident of Art

Virilio discusses the relationship of war trauma and art and the failure of visual art to reinvent itself when confronte

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Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads: A Study in the Nineteenth-Century Railroad Investment Process [Reprint 2014 ed.] 9780674181304, 9780674181298

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Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century

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Sunken Spaceship

An unlikely hero is swept up into intergalactic affairs when he stumbles upon a crashed starship. Ex-Army paratrooper G

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