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A review of what Yale University Press calls, 'The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway.'
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I found this book to be easy to read and yet deeply scholarly. A superb, informative and enjoyable read! It is not too often that you find a railway history book as readable as a novel.
It seems to me that it is possible that the individual chapters are developed from the text of a series of lectures on early railway history. The readable text is backed up by very comprehensive notes and references. There is also a wide-ranging bibliography.
David Gwyn; The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850; Yale University Press, London & New Haven, 2023.
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway. Yale University Press says, “Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s o…
rogerfarnworth.com
I found this book to be easy to read and yet deeply scholarly. A superb, informative and enjoyable read! It is not too often that you find a railway history book as readable as a novel.
It seems to me that it is possible that the individual chapters are developed from the text of a series of lectures on early railway history. The readable text is backed up by very comprehensive notes and references. There is also a wide-ranging bibliography.
