Monograph on forced labour, expropriation of indigenous landowners and the evolution of the African worker in colonial French-speaking Africa. Covers historical and sociological aspects of colonialism and capitalism in Central Africa, economic and social implications of the Cong…
Présentation des trains du monde qui, depuis 170 ans, ont bouleversé notre histoire. L'ouvrage évoque les trains mythiques qui ont permis la conquête de l'Ouest américain, le luxueux Orient-Express, les immenses Transsibérien et Transmongolien, les trains des records (le TGV à 3…
This work is a history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating d…
