Name: The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble (en Inglés)
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Author: matthew (edt) beaumont
ISBN: 9783039110247

portada The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Verlag Peter Lang

Autor

matthew (edt) beaumont

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

262

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

3039110241

ISBN13

9783039110247

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la humanidad

The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble (en Inglés)

Matthew (Edt) Beaumont (Autor) · Verlag Peter Lang · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble (en Inglés)"

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.