Trainland
how railways made New Zealand
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Author
Publication
2007 - Random House New Zealand, Auckland, N.Z, New Zealand
Language
English
Word Count
62,750 words, Guess
Page Count
251 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetrainlandhowrail0000atki
- ISBN-101869419375
- ISBN-139781869419370
- ISBN-139781869419059
- ISBN-101869419057
and 4 more
- LibraryThing6099993
- Library of Congress Control Number2008399920
- OCLC Control Number174060648
- Open LibraryOL17036401M
Classifications
- DDC385.0993
- LCCTF122.5 .A87 2007
Description
Railways have played a central role in New Zealand politics, economics, trade union history, tourism and popular culture. Yet rail history has been largely neglected by professional historians. While the field has long been popular with enthusiasts, they have tended to focus on locomotive and rolling stock minutiae, engineering feats and so on, and have paid little attention to social and cultural aspects. This book includes a brief outline of the development of rail in NZ; and looks at who uses the trains and why; daily life on and off the rails; the train in popular culture and the collective memory.
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