As a rule, these are eitherĬompilations or popularised accounts of the social history of the railroads,Įnriched by contemporary descriptions of the speed of railroad (this or similarly, the title of many studies). Which attempt to describe the complexities of the ‘railway age’ Though both authors have confined themselves to the process of assimilationĪpart from this specialised literature, there are general cultural histories Both studies also inspired the present workīecause of the way they deal with the process of assimilation, even Baroli, Le train dans la littératureįrançaise (Paris, 1964). Wexler, La formation du vocabulaire des chemins de fer en France Railroads as a term or as a theme into French language and literature: P. Two exemplary French studies examine the gradual introduction of Her study is rather traditionalĪnd concerned with architectural style, but remains important for lack Meeks’s The Railroad Station: AnĪrchitectural History (New Haven, 1956). Verkehrs-Psychologie, Luft- und Raumfahrt-Medizin, no. Weltkriegs’, Zentralblatt Verkehrsmedizin, Verkehrsmedizin für den Verkehr mit Landfahrzeugen von denĪnfängen bis zum Ende des 2. A bibliography (which is far from comprehensive, 27, 1970 idem, ‘Der mythische Hintergrundĭer Eisenbahnkrankheiten des 19. In: idem, ‘Railway Spine und traumatische Neurose - Seele und General survey of medicine and railroads during the nineteenth century Sozialen Leiden (Berne, 1975), deals extensively with the roots of the Fischer-Homberger, Die traumatische Neurose. Kellett, The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities (London/Toronto,Į. To protect the consumer, but de facto they became agencies of the 33.Īn excellent study of how the American railroads spearheaded theĮstablishment of so-called regulatory agencies is G. “Time on the Cross”’, New York Review of Books, 1975, no. A bibliography of hisĬritics is to be found in T. In its time, has meanwhile been overturned. Fogel’s hypothesis, which caused a sensation Railroads and American Growth (Baltimore, 1964), on the other hand, isĪn attempt to provide the statistical evidence that this argument does Played by railroads in the development of capitalism. Hawke, Railways and Economic Growth in EnglandĪnd Wales, 1840–1870 (Oxford, 1970), for Britain, confirm the vital role Fishlow, RailroadsĪnd the Transformation of Ante-Bellum Economy (Cambridge, 1966),įor the US, and G. Here the New Economic historians have published a number of important,Īnd in some cases controversial, monographs. Railroads and General Economic Development Is a selection of topics which have been the subject of scholarly study in Impact of railroads on the most varied aspects of society. Historians, especially, have written many studies relating to the Indeed, the Bibliography of British Railway History which George OttleyĬompiled some fifteen years ago lists close to eight thousand titles theĬatalogue of the library of the Association of American Railroads contains Railroads have not been a neglected subject in historical writing. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city.īelonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. But this was not always the case as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change-the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness-was very much a learned behavior. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society.
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