Publisher's Synopsis
This work offers coverage of the developments in transport during the period 1840-1914, which highlights the role of steam power in transforming economic and geographical relationships on land and at sea, while also exploring those transport systems which survived the advent of the steam age like sail in coastal oceanic shipping and human and animal power in the movement of goods.;The book is aimed at second and third year undergraduates studying economic history, historical geography, transport history and Victorian studies.
