| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 309 p.) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Railroads -- Social aspects
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Railroad travel -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Railroads -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Spalding, Steven D., 1971-
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| LC no. |
2021678699 |
| ISBN |
9780739167502 |
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0739167502 |
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1283432811 |
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9781283432818 |
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9786613432810 |
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6613432814 |
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