Railroads, Colonial -- History

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• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Short Line War, by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg text)

• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (c1899), ed. by William Wright (illustrated HTML at memoriallibrary.com)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown, by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (page images at openlibrary.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)

• The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries, 1910-1941 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Gregory Lee Thompson (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Die Sächsischen Eisenbahnen in Historisch-Statistischer Darstellung (in German; Leipzig: T. Thomas, ca. 1902), by Albert Wiedemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (1831), by Joseph Priestley (HTML at jim-shead.com)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad by William Seward Webb, 1891-92 (Norwood, MA: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Howard Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A History of Railroads in Tompkins County (third edition, 2008), by Hardy Campbell Lee, Winton Rossiter, and John Marcham (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Railroad Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody (Gutenberg text)

• Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (PDF at McMillan Memorial Library)

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by David M. Vrooman (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
• What Makes the British Commonwealth Hold Together? (1946), by Herbert Heaton (illustrated HTML at historians.org)

• Colonial Georgia: A Study in British Imperial Policy in the Eighteenth Century (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1963), by Trevor Richard Reese (PDF at DjVu at Georgia)

• Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 (Philadelphia:J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries, With Additional Chapters on English Influence in Japan and China, and on Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements (London: Macmillan and Co., 1907), by Charles Wentworth Dilke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, Viceroy of India, by James Bruce Elgin, ed. by Theodore Walrond, contrib. by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Gutenberg text)

• An Empire Story: Stories of India and the Greater Colonies Told to Children (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, ca. 1908), by H. E. Marshall (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Beacon Lights of History (15 volumes, 1902), by John Lord (Gutenberg and archive.org volumes)
• Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• The Eye-Witness (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (HTML at Baldwin Project)
• Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Mysteries (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Sketches (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906-9), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume III: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)

• Reviews in History (full serial archives)

• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

• Dizionario delle Date, dei Fatti, Luoghi ed Uomini Storici: o, Repertorio Alfabetico di Cronologia Universale (6 volumes in Italian; Venice: G. Antonelli, 1842-1847), ed. by A. L. d' Harmonville (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google

• The Columbia Encyclopedia's Crimes Against the Truth, by Joseph McCabe (HTML at infidels.org)
• Some Lies and Errors of History (seventh edition; Notre Dame, IN: The Ave Maria, c1893), by Reuben Parsons (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Leisure Hours: or, Entertaining Dialogues, Between Persons Eminent for Virtue and Magnanimity (fifth edition; London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1812), by Priscilla Wakefield (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Round-About Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Frank Richard Stockton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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