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Engines of empire : steamships and the Victorian imagination /
In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was the remarkable wonder of the nineteenth cnetury: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : annihilating space
- Phantasmagoria : steam and spectacle in the public sphere
- Selling the Mammoth : the commodification of wonder
- Leviathans : ships as fantasy
- Honor and glory crowning time : disaster sermons and the cult of technology
- Ordinary escapes : American steamboats and the masquerade of class
- One small iron country : social hierarchies on the North Atlantic
- Vandals abroad : travelogues and the pleasure cruise
- The dollars are coming : steam tourism and the transformation of space
- Tiffin for griffins : educating imperial administrators on the long voyage
- The floating Kaiser : steamships and national identity
- Sitting in darkness : critiquing imperialism from the top deck
- Conclusion : transportation is civilization.