The medical profession found it difficult to diagnose these symptoms, which became an important subject of medical and legal controversy after the railroad companies had become legally liable for their passengers’ safety and health. Please review your cart. Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist CityYou've already shared your review for this item. The journey was felt to be uncannily smooth, easy, secure, like flying. European Theatre Performance Practice, 1900 to the Present In terms of transport economics, this meant a shrinking of space: ‘Distances practically diminish in the exact ratio of the speed of...The railroad reorganized space. 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, on JSTOR. Nothing else in the nineteenth century seemed as vivid and dramatic a sign of modernity as the railroad. Thanks!We are currently reviewing your submission. It was first documented in a lecture given in 1854 to the London Institution of Civil Engineers; the lecture, entitled ‘On the Fatigue and...Let us glance at Thomas Creevy’s description of a train journey in 1829: ‘It is really flying, and it is impossible to divest yourself of the notion of instant death to all upon the least accident happening’.¹Early perception of the railroad was characterized by a curious ambivalence. A loyalty program that rewards you for your love of reading.There are currently no items in your Shopping Cart. Try logging in through your institution for access. The shipbuilding industry of the European maritime powers, the iron works and the machines built in the manufacturing and early industrial period were all based on the use of wood. A deadfall by the road, from the hills by Langen.To adherents of progressive thought in the first half of the nineteenth century, the railroad appeared as the technical guarantor of democracy, harmony between nations, peace and progress. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. The spatial capacity of glass architecture stands in a similar relation to...In Goethe’s journal on his trip to Switzerland in 1797, there is the following entry:Left Frankfurt shortly after 7:00 A.M. On the Sachsenhausen mountain, many well-kept vineyards; foggy, cloudy, pleasant weather. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. ‘With the construction of railroads, American cultureUntil the end of the 1850s, medical science exhibited only sporadic interest in the effects that rail travel had on the health of passengers and railway personnel.¹ The first systematic study appeared in 1857: it was E. A. Duchesne’sIn the mid-nineteenth century the concept of fatigue acquired this additional connotation, the technical one. In architecture, a similar reorganization occurred with the introduction of glass and steel as new building materials. A given spatial distance, traditionally covered in a fixed amount of travel time, could suddenly be dealt with in a fraction of that time; to put it another way, the same amount of time permitted one to cover the old spatial distance many times over. Thanks!Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book.
Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice By the end of the century their naivete came home to them, especially in the United States where railroad corporations were seen as the epitome of ruthless, irresponsible business power, a grave threat to order and stability, both economic and political. This current of European thought found its most emphatic expression in the followers of Saint-Simon: the intellectual generation that appeared on the French political and economic stage around 1825, the year Saint-Simon died, projected all the egalitarian hopes left unfulfilled by Revolution and Empire onto industry and its spectacular spearhead, the railroad: to them it was the material force that...The history of the railroad in the United States differs from its history in Europe in that the American railroad was not the industrial successor to a fully-fledged pre-industrial transportation system: in America, the railroad served to open up, for the first time, vast regions of previously unsettled wilderness. 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 …