He brings aboard such topics as the changing use of shock in the military, the evolution of medical and legal ties to injuries from train accidents, and the links to department stores in Paris. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. 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. This history of rail travel in the Nineteenth Century provides a platform for author Schivelbusch to scan seemingly unrelated terrain to draw connections. The Railway Journey is a straightforward but deceptively sophisticated work of social/cultural history that chronicles the rise of train travel and the effect this had on perceptions of space, time, travel, commerce, and ultimately 'modernity' (though the author avoids that loaded term).
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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. Delving into urban planning, psychology, architecture, and economics, as well as the history of technology, Schivelbusch paints a revealing. 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.
University of California Press, 1986 - Social Science - 203 pages. Arrives by Wed, Aug 10 - Fri, Aug 12 Buy Pre-owned: Railway Journey : The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century, Paperback by Schivelbusch. 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. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space. 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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