The Railway And Modernity

Author : Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039110241

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The Railway and Modernity by Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman Pdf

Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.

Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719059666

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Railways and Culture in Britain by Ian Carter Pdf

The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.

Author : Marian Aguiar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816665600

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Tracking Modernity by Marian Aguiar Pdf

The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.

Author : Rebecca Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786723222

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From Steam to Screen by Rebecca Harrison Pdf

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing into life onscreen. And, whether in films about train travel, or in newspaper articles about movie theatres on trains, stories about the convergence of the railway and cinema were especially prominent. Together, the two technologies radically transformed how people interacted with the world around them, and became crucial to how British media reflected the nation's modernity and changing role within the empire. Rebecca Harrison draws on archival sources and an extensive corpus of films to trace the intertwined histories of the train and the screen for the first time. In doing so, she presents a new and illuminating material and cultural history of the period, and demonstrates the myriad ways railways and cinema coalesced to transform the population's everyday life. With examples taken from more than 240 newsreels and 40 feature-length films, From Steam to Screen is essential reading for students and researchers working on film studies and British history at the turn of the century and beyond.

Author : John F. Unsworth
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351647106

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Design and Construction of Modern Steel Railway Bridges by John F. Unsworth Pdf

This new edition encompasses current design methods used for steel railway bridges in both SI and Imperial (US Customary) units. It discusses the planning of railway bridges and the appropriate types of bridges based on planning considerations.

Author : Cecil Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : UGA:32108061522143

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They Call Me George by Cecil Foster Pdf

A historical work of non-fiction that chronicles the little-known stories of black railway porters - the so-called "Pullmen" of the Canadian rail lines. The actions and spirit of these men helped define Canada as a nation in surprising ways; effecting race relations, human rights, North American multiculturalism, community building, the shape and structure of unions, and the nature of travel and business across the US and Canada. Drawing on the stories and legends of several of these influential early black Canadians, this book narrates the history of a very visible, but rarely considered, aspect of black life in railway-age Canada. These porters, who fought against the idea of Canada as White Man's Country, open only to immigrants from Europe, fought for opportunities and rights and won.

Author : Murat Özyüksel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857737434

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The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire by Murat Özyüksel Pdf

Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world - linking Constantinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and the its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject, and is essential reading for those interested in Industrial History, Ottoman Studies and the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I.

Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520957909

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The Railway Journey by Wolfgang Schivelbusch Pdf

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. 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. 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. 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. 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. Belonging 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. 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.

Author : John F. Unsworth
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420082180

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Design of Modern Steel Railway Bridges by John F. Unsworth Pdf

Perhaps the first book on this topic in more than 50 years, Design of Modern Steel Railway Bridges focuses not only on new steel superstructures but also outlines principles and methods that are useful for the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing steel railway bridges. It complements the recommended practices of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-way Association (AREMA), in particular Chapter 15-Steel Structures in AREMA’s Manual for Railway Engineering (MRE). The book has been carefully designed to remain valid through many editions of the MRE. After covering the basics, the author examines the methods for analysis and design of modern steel railway bridges. He details the history of steel railway bridges in the development of transportation systems, discusses modern materials, and presents an extensive treatment of railway bridge loads and moving load analysis. He then outlines the design of steel structural members and connections in accordance with AREMA recommended practice, demonstrating the concepts with worked examples. Topics include: A history of iron and steel railway bridges Engineering properties of structural steel typically used in modern steel railway bridge design and fabrication Planning and preliminary design Loads and forces on railway superstructures Criteria for the maximum effects from moving loads and their use in developing design live loads Design of axial and flexural members Combinations of forces on steel railway superstructures Copiously illustrated with more than 300 figures and charts, the book presents a clear picture of the importance of railway bridges in the national transportation system. A practical reference and learning tool, it provides a fundamental understanding of AREMA recommended practice that enables more effective design.

Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674368170

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Railroads and the Transformation of China by Elisabeth Köll Pdf

To convey modern China’s history and the forces driving its economic success, rail has no equal. From warlordism to Cultural Revolution, railroads suffered the country’s ills but persisted because they were exemplary institutions. Elisabeth Köll shows why they remain essential to the PRC’s technocratic economic model for China’s future.

Author : Ali Hessami
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9789535138594

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Modern Railway Engineering by Ali Hessami Pdf

Since the advent of steam engines and higher throughput railways during the early nineteenth century, the rate of development has been rather steady and incremental. The development of advanced electronic control and command systems, increasing levels of automation, and electrified high-speed railways over the past few decades have transformed the rail transportation posing it as a competitor to aviation. Modern railways are no longer the sole forte of civil and mechanical engineering and involve a broad multidisciplinary engineering disciplines from advanced computing, telecommunications, and networking to big data analytics and even AI. This volume addresses the diverse, evolving, and advanced engineering disciplines including enabling practices and processes involved in shaping modern railways.

Author : Benjamin Fraser,Steven D. Spalding
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781789209198

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Transnational Railway Cultures by Benjamin Fraser,Steven D. Spalding Pdf

Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241517789

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The Primrose Railway Children by Jacqueline Wilson Pdf

Sit back and enjoy the journey! Phoebe Robinson loves making up stories - just like her wonderful, imaginative Dad. When he mysteriously disappears, Phoebe, Perry, Becks and their mum must leave everything behind and move to a small cottage in the middle of nowhere. Struggling to feel at home and missing her Dad terribly, Phoebe's only distraction is her guinea pig Daisy. Until the family discover the thrilling steam trains at the railway station and suddenly, every day is filled with adventure. But Phoebe still can't help wondering, what is Mum hiding and more worryingly is Dad okay? A captivating reimagining of The Railway Children from the award-winning, bestselling, beloved Jacqueline Wilson.

Author : Michael Schabas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0727761803

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The Railway Metropolis by Michael Schabas Pdf

Author : Kyle Gillette
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786477760

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Railway Travel in Modern Theatre by Kyle Gillette Pdf

Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs--ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's use of the treadmill--explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. After World War II, some playwrights and auteur directors, from Armand Gatti to Robert Wilson to Amiri Baraka, looked to locomotion not as a radically new space and time but as a reminder of obsolescence, complicity in the Holocaust, and its role in uprooting people from their communities. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive.