![]() #THE RAILWAY JOURNEY SCHIVELBUSCH CODE#Īccident and crisis - Railway accident, "railway spine" and traumatic neurosis - The history of shock - Stimulus shield : or, the industrialized consciousness - The railroad station : entrance to the city - Tracks in the city - Circulation Control code 861955237 Dimensions 23 cm Edition 2014 edition Extent xxv, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates Isbn 9780520282261 Media category unmediated Media MARC source rdamedia Media type code Transportation before the railroad The construction of the railroad The new type of carriage River steamboat and canal packet as models for the American railroad car Sea voyage on rails Postscript - The pathology of the railroad journey - Industrial fatigue - The accident. ![]() Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing tech Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology.īut, Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes in this vivid history of early rail travel, the promise of progress and democracy was swiftly compromised. The railroads became an agency for the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and they created a class of passive consumers who simply got aboard and waited to arrive at their destinations. The railroads, Schivelbusch writes, changed the 19th-century world for good and ill. They helped rewrite the industrializing world's sense of time, for now precise schedules had to be kept they reinforced a sense of forward-plunging movement into the future they even introduced the reality of mass disaster, for railroads were always crashing, sometimes taking hundreds of riders to their deaths.ĭelving into urban planning, psychology, architecture, and economics, as well as the history of technology, Schivelbusch paints a revealing portrait of the role of the railroad in shaping the 19th-century mind. Since I read this book with twinkling eyes and a smile on my face I tenderly recommend it to other readers, at least those who are interested in trains. What this is, is a cultural history, culture very broadly understood, of the railway. At first everything seemed so familiar that I could hardly perceive the insight. It bu Since I read this book with twinkling eyes and a smile on my face I tenderly recommend it to other readers, at least those who are interested in trains. What this is, is a cultural history, culture very broadly understood, of the railway.Īt first everything seemed so familiar that I could hardly perceive the insight. ![]() It helped to remember that this book has been rattling around since 1977. Long enough for others to have drawn from it and for its messages to have passed through many stations. It builds up steam towards the industrialisation of travel, with the traveller as product, delivered to their destination. ![]() Unless you are in the USA, in which case you are shipped.
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