Getting Around: Exploring Transportation History (Exploring Community History Series) - Hardcover

Grant, H. Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575241536 ISBN 13: 9781575241531

Publisher: Krieger Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575241536
• ISBN 13: 9781575241531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 202
• Editor: Kyvig David E., Marty Myron A.