| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 the country, and to ensure a transnational exchange of goods and ideas. In The Philosophy of Railways, A.A. den Otter considers the relationship between nationalism and technology, and shows how the popular rhetoric surrounding the evolution of the Canadian Pacific Railway has mythologized the role of a private corporation and its technology. He questions the notion that the railways were built as an antidote to American manifest destiny, suggesting instead that the widespread adoption of railway transportation as a civilizing mission impelled Canadians to bow to technology's integrating effects, including confederation and closer ties with the United States."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
1. Technological Nationalism: The Backdrop -- 2. Guarantee Act: Signpost for an Era -- 3. Nova Scotia: Railways and the New Economy -- 4. Grand Trunk Railway: The New Imperialism -- 5. Saint John: Fulcrum Metropol -- 6. Pacific Scandal: Nationalism and Business -- 7. National Policy: Defining a Nation -- 8. Philosophy of Railways: Conclusions and Conjectures. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company. |
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History. |
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company. |
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Canadian Pacific Railway <Firma>. |
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- Histoire. |
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Canadian Pacific Railway <Firma>. |
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Railroads -- Canada -- History.
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Railroads. |
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Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Otter, A.A. den (Andy Albert den), 1941- Philosophy of railways. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1997 9780802041616 (DLC) 97185154 (OCoLC)37640719 |
| ISBN |
9781442678460 (electronic book) |
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1442678461 (electronic book) |
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0802041612 (bound) |
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9780802041616 |
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