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The Filth of Progress
Ryan Dearinger
其他書名
Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West
出版Univ of California Press, 2015-10-30
主題History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN05202845939780520284593
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QrAlDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Filth of ProgressÊexplores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were builtÊand lionizedÊthe capitalistsÊwho financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869.ÊHe tells the storyÊof the immigrants and AmericansÑthe Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizensÑwhose labor created the WestÕs infrastructure and turned the nationÕs dreams of a continental empire into a reality.ÊDearingerÊreveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.