Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
Product Description
Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
Pathbreaking examination of the impact of railroads on American culture and the built environment. Prof. Stilgoe focuses on how the railroads created metropolitan corridors that not only shaped the landscape but also American attitudes towards industrial might, exploration of the countryside and Nature, and the possibility of an ordered and beautiful future. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos as well as drawings. With extensive notes. 397 pages with index.
Technical Specifications
You might also like
Satin Island (Vintage Contemporaries)
American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture
What Is Landscape? (MIT Press)
Landscape and Images
Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845
What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village
A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (Early American Studies)
Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (Early American Studies)
Zen and the Art of Local History (American Association for State and Local History)
The Intuitionist: A Novel