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Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, a few tears, toning and creasing.

First Edition. 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. The study begins by looking at the intellectual climate that spawned the Canadian railway idea, revealing that this idea was strongly influenced by a combination of British and American liberalism, a philosophy that saw technology as the means to destroy trade barriers. In fact, during the mid-nineteenth century, Canadians preferred to build transportation links to the American seaboard rather than to Saint John or Halifax, and this created a deep-seated alienation in the country's peripheral regions. Not only does den Otter include the Maritimes in his analysis, but he employs a careful reading of national documents including assembly debates, the private correspondence of major political figures, and newspaper commentary to contextualize the public debate. By investigating the complex and ambiguous process by which the Canadian railway system both consolidated national identity and facilitated continental integration, The Philosophy of Railways establishes that isolationism, until relatively recently, was not the unilateral stance of those committed to the growth of the railway. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages; Description: xi, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-279) and index. Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway Company --History. Railroads --Canada. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st edition. 240pp, oblong quarto, hc w/jacket in mylar, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards, light wear to the complete jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Type: Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 240 pages. Index. Bibliography. Many archival black and white illustrations. Dust jacket not included. Average wear. Pages just beginning to yellow at edges. Binding sound. A quality copy.

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 146 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. In Fine clean unopened condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0950034142 AEROPLANES.