The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. Hardcover. New/Very Good. New in very good dust jacket. null New in Fine dust jacket. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 203 pages; Books are new and were removed from our shelves for online sale. No remainder marks. Our retail price was written in pencil on end page but has since been erased. DJ has light scuffing to shine of paper and edge bumps.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Friends of the Johnson County Library [8879492], Merriam, KS, U.S.A.
0520058127 Ex-library with typical stamps and labels. Hardcover book in Mylar covered D.J. Book shows typical library usage. Purchase of this item will help support the programs and collections of the Johnson County (Kansas) Library.

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19th century,food lodging and transportation,history,history and philosophy,modern (16th-21st centuries),politics and social sciences,railroad travel,railroads,science and math,science and math, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century, Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology. But, Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes in this vivid history of early rail travel, the promise of progress and democracy was swiftly compromised. The railroads became an agency for the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and they created a class of passive consumers who simply got aboard and waited to arrive at their destinations. The railroads, Schivelbusch writes, changed the 19th-century world for good and Ill. They helped rewrite the industrializing world's sense of time, for now precise schedules had to be kept; they reinforced a sense of forward-plunging movement into the future; they even introduced the reality of mass disaster, for railroads were always crashing, sometimes taking hundreds of riders to their deaths. Delving into urban planning, psychology, architecture, and economics, as well as the history of technology, Schivelbusch paints a revealing portrait of the role of the railroad in shaping the 19th-century mind. --Gregory McNamee.

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Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology. But, Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes in this vivid history of early rail travel, the promise of progress and democracy was swiftly compromised. The railroads became an agency for the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and they created a class of passive consumers who simply got aboard and waited to arrive at their destinations. The railroads, Schivelbusch writes, changed the 19th-century world for good and Ill. They helped rewrite the industrializing world's sense of time, for now precise schedules had to be kept; they reinforced a sense of forward-plunging movement into the future; they even introduced the reality of mass disaster, for railroads were always crashing, sometimes taking hundreds of riders to their deaths. Delving into urban planning, psychology, architecture, and economics, as well as the history of technology, Schivelbusch paints a revealing portrait of the role of the railroad in shaping the 19th-century mind. --Gregory McNamee, Hardcover, Ausgabe: n 1986, Label: University of California Press, University of California Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1992-07-01, Studio: University of California Press, Verkaufsrang: 6699858.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Your Online Bookstore [55604094], Houston, TX, U.S.A.
0520058127 Some visible wear, and minimal interior marks.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Booked Again [55383221], Summit, NJ, U.S.A.
Very good.

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University of California Press, 1986-11-01. Hardcover. Acceptable.