{"product_id":"the-iron-way-railroads-the-civil-war-and-the-making-of-modern-america","title":"The Iron Way: Railroads  the Civil War  and the Making of Modern America","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Frederick Douglasss escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad  and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869  this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation  one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear on railroads  the Confederate South  slavery  and the Civil War era  based on groundbreaking research in digitized sources never available before. The Iron Way revises our ideas about the emergence of modern America and the role of the railroads in shaping the sectional conflict. Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve their larger purposes  Thomas contends. Though railroads are often cited as a major factor in the Unions victory  he shows that they were also essential to the formation of \"the South\" as a unified region. He discusses the manyand sometimes unexpectedeffects of railroad expansion and proposes that Americas great railroads became an important symbolic touchstone for the nations vision of itself. Please visit the Railroads and the Making of Modern America website at http:\/\/railroads.unl.edu.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985087557685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300141076","price":22.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300141078.jpg?v=1770845945","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-iron-way-railroads-the-civil-war-and-the-making-of-modern-america","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}