Trains, culture, and mobility : riding the rails /

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"These essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fraser, Benjamin
Otros Autores: Spalding, Steven D., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, [Md.] : Lexington Books, c2012.
Temas:
Railroads > Social aspects.
Railroad travel > Social aspects.
Voyages en train > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Railroads > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Riding the Rails
  • Part I: Speed and Vision
  • Chapter 01. Cultures of Speed and Conservative Modernity
  • Chapter 02. The Speed of Signs
  • Part II: On Passengers
  • Chapter 03. "What to Wear and Where to Go"
  • Chapter 04. Seen from a Carriage
  • Part III: City Networks
  • Chapter 05. Urban Railways, Industrial Infrastructure, and the Paris Cityscape, 1870-1914
  • Chapter 06. Subways and Cell Phones
  • Part IV: Inside the Station
  • Chapter 07. Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions
  • Chapter 08. Digging Madrid
  • Part V: Shifting States
  • Chapter 09. Trains, Modernity, and State Formation in Meiji Japan
  • Chapter 10. "The Super-Express of Our Dreams" and Other Mythologies about Postwar Japan.

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