The Railway and Modernity
Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Freeman, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-03911-024-7
- EAN: 9783039110247
- Produktnummer: 19519418
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.2 cm 420 g
- Abbildungen: 20 ill.
- Gewicht: 420
Über den Autor
The Editors: Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the editor of Adventures in Realism (2007). Michael Freeman is Supernumerary Fellow in Human Geography at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. His principal publications include: Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World (2004); and Railways and the Victorian Imagination (1999), winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year 1999 and short-listed for the Sally Hacker prize at Johns Hopkins, 2001.
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