H. Craig Miner

While the role of the railroad in America as a catalyst for creating the modern society we've come to know and sometimes loath is not exactly news, what Miner does well is to trawl contemporary opinion's relation to the spread of the new technology. In particular, Miner reminds readers that those states that became the Confederacy were as active in the creation of the new transportation system as other regions of the country, just with the overriding concern of maintaining the existing structures of African-American slavery and keeping the federal government at bay.… (altro)