Trains, culture, and mobility : riding the rails / Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding.
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TextPublication details: Lanham, [Md.] : Lexington Books, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 309 p.)Content type: - text
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- 9780739167502
- 0739167502
- 1283432811
- 9781283432818
- 9786613432810
- 6613432814
- 306.4/819 23
- HE1031
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
"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.
English.
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