巴拿马铁路

系列：过去和现在的铁路
1848年，一群雄心勃勃的美国企业家决定开始一项了不起的工程壮举——他们将建造一条横跨巴拿马地峡的铁路，连接大西洋和太平洋。巴拿马铁路的修建被列为19世纪最大胆的资本主义项目之一，在建成之前需要与气候、疾病和地理环境作斗争。在人类层面上，它将改变美国、巴拿马、西印度群岛、亚洲以及爱尔兰成千上万人的命运。
巴拿马铁路首次全面介绍了这条铁路的建设情况，远远超出了威廉·阿斯平沃尔、乔治·劳和科尼利厄斯·范德比尔特等与铁路建设有关的行业巨头的已知故事。它试图纠正错误的说法，填补过去历史中的许多空白，特别是展示了普通爱尔兰工人愿意周游半个地球，追求不确定的未来和危险的事业，希望逃离1845-49年大饥荒的毁灭性后果的故事。
The Panama Railroad
Series: Railroads Past and Present
In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat―they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland.
The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad’s construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.

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