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"Making themselves ""at home"" aboard the trains, white men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain."

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Home on the Rails fills a considerable void in the history of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a useful and delightful book. - H. Roger Grant, Clemson University

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Amy G. Richter is assistant professor of history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The dissertation on which this book is based won the 2001 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians.

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