The Railway and Modernity
Title | The Railway and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Beaumont |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9783039110247 |
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.
Legislative History of the Railway Labor Act, as Amended (1926 Through 1966)
Title | Legislative History of the Railway Labor Act, as Amended (1926 Through 1966) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2448 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Collective labor agreements |
ISBN |
The Railway and Marine World
Title | The Railway and Marine World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1136 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
The Railroad Trainman
Title | The Railroad Trainman PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1028 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Labor unions |
ISBN |
The Railways of America
Title | The Railways of America PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Cooley |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2022-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368267019 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.
Returns of the Railroad Corporations in Massachusetts ... with Abstracts of the Same
Title | Returns of the Railroad Corporations in Massachusetts ... with Abstracts of the Same PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
An Historical, Statistical, and Scientific Account of the Railways of Belgium From 1834 to 1842
Title | An Historical, Statistical, and Scientific Account of the Railways of Belgium From 1834 to 1842 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Dobson |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2024-04-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385118530 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.