
Getting Around
Exploring Transportation History
H.Roger Grant(Author)
Krieger Publishing Company
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Hardback
978-1-57524-153-1 (ISBN)
Description
Getting Around explores how students of local transportation history might learn about this vital aspect of their community's past. The scope covers all major types of public transportation, including waterways, canals, railroads, electric interurbans, roads and aviation. This work also provides readers with a sense of the importance and interrelationship between transport forms in both a national and local context. Many period photographs are included.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Melbourne, FL
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
photographs, index
ISBN-13
978-1-57524-153-1 (9781575241531)
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Person
One of America's leading railroad historians, H. Roger Grant, Professor of History at Clemson University, is author of numerous books, including The North Western and The Corn Belt Route.