The Railway and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Railway and Modernity write by Matthew Beaumont. This book was released on 2007. The Railway and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.
Tracking Modernity
Tracking Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracking Modernity write by Marian Aguiar. This book was released on 2011. Tracking Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.
The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire
The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire write by Murat Özyüksel. This book was released on 2014-10-22. The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world - linking Constantinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and the its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject, and is essential reading for those interested in Industrial History, Ottoman Studies and the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I.
The Railway Journey
The Railway Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Railway Journey write by Wolfgang Schivelbusch. This book was released on 2014-05-06. The Railway Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. 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. 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. 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. 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. Belonging 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. 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.
Railways and Culture in Britain
Railways and Culture in Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railways and Culture in Britain write by Ian Carter. This book was released on 2001. Railways and Culture in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
