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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2008 Focusing on the field sciences during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper analyzes how railroads served as tools of knowledge empire in the American West.
Jeremy Vetter
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Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2020 In Argentina, at the beginning of the 20th century, railroads employed a large number of workers of various trades, qualifications, ages and nationalities who worked at the different departments in which the railway companies were organized. Although the
Florencia D' Uva
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Train station area gardens: the creation and evolution of Dr. José Esteves Square, in Lavras-MG
Ornamental Horticulture, 2018 Studying the origins and transformations of a public square throughout time is extremely important, since it motivates its preservation and the consecration of its history.
Iracema Clara Alves Luz +2 more
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Investigaciones Geográficas, 1987 Railroads, after a hundred and fifty years of existence in the world and a century in Mexico, have been a determinant factor in the construction of the economic space in capitalist societies.
Ana García de Fuentes
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E-REA, 2009 In the second half of the 19th century, the United States transcontinental railroads stimulated an unprecedented cartographic activity. The representation of a geographical reality, hidden behind the mapping process, may lead to the disclosure of another
Mila DI NAPOLI-MARCHETTI
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Estudios Fronterizos, 2022 The purpose of the article is to review the history of the emergence of Mexicali from evidence not contemplated by conventional explanations. According to this, its first 12 years of existence (between 1903 and 1915) were analyzed to establish a ...
Víctor Manuel Gruel Sández
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Railroads in Peru: How Important Were They? [PDF]
Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2011 This paper analyzes the evolution and main features of the railway system of Peru in the 19th and early 20th centuries. From mid-19th century railroads were considered a promise for achieving progress.
Luis Felipe Zegarra
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