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. As a history, not of technology, but 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. 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. Insights on Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights Front Cover. 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. A coal wagon and passenger car combined, 1825 The train cuts through the landscape The cutting as part of the nineteenth-century landscape The railroad blazes a trail through the city The viaduct The railroad journey as panorama The monotony of the railroad journey Travelling third-class in France in the 1840s Third-class travellers, by Gustave. 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. Railway Accident, 'Railway Spine' and Traumatic Neurosis. First published in Germany in 1980, this elegantly trim and readable inquiry is the final volume (after The Railway Journey and Disenchanted Nightneither reviewed) of social-historian Schivelbuschs musings on the origin of modern industrial consciousness. The Pathology of the Railroad Journey Excursus: Industrial Fatigue The American Railroad Transporation 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 Duchesne published his industrial-medical survey Des chemins de fer et leur influence sur la sant des mcaniciens et des chauffeurs. The Compartment The End of Converstaion while Traveling Isolation Drama in the Compartment The Compartment as a Problem Medical science began to study the effects that rail travel had on the health of passengers and railway personnel in 1857, when E. analysis shows, Indian railway passengers experiences of travelling in. Railroad Space and Railroad Time Excursus: The Space of Glass Architecture 39 As Wolfgang Schivelbuschs pioneering work shows, railway journeys produced novel. Acknowledgements Foreword Alan Trachtenberg Preface to the 2014 Edition.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index.
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