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Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
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2011
Summary
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of “Riding the Rails.”
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6749-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6750-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
310
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Riding the Rails No access
Chapter 01. Cultures of Speed and Conservative Modernity No access
Chapter 02. The Speed of Signs No access
Chapter 03. “What to Wear and Where to Go” No access
Chapter 04. Seen from a Carriage No access
Chapter 05. Urban Railways, Industrial Infrastructure, and the Paris Cityscape, 1870–1914 No access
Chapter 06. Subways and Cell Phones No access
Chapter 07. Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions No access
Chapter 08. Digging Madrid No access
Chapter 09. Trains, Modernity, and State Formation in Meiji Japan No access
Chapter 10. “The Super-Express of Our Dreams” and Other Mythologies about Postwar Japan No access
Index No access Pages 291 - 306
Notes on Contributors No access Pages 307 - 310
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