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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...

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Основен автор: Otter, A. A. den 1941-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ℗♭1997.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468382
Подобни документи: Print version:: 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
  • 8.
  • The Philosophy of Railways: Conclusions and Conjectures.