The philosophy of railways : the transcontinental railway idea in British North America /
"When, in the late 1980s, the federal government initiated a plan to deregulate the Canadian railway system, lobby groups protested the betrayal of a national mandate. They asserted that the railway was founded to promote a sense of national identity, to provide access to isolated regions of th...
Основен автор: | Otter, A. A. den 1941- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
℗♭1997.
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Philosophy of railways. |
Съдържание:
- 1.
- Technological Nationalism: The Backdrop
- 2.
- The Guarantee Act: Signpost for an Era
- 3.
- Nova Scotia: Railways and the New Economy
- 4.
- The Grand Trunk Railway: The New Imperialism
- 5.
- Saint John: Fulcrum Metropol
- 6.
- The Pacific Scandal: Nationalism and Business
- 7.
- The National Policy: Defining a Nation
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- The Philosophy of Railways: Conclusions and Conjectures.