Railway and Modernity
Railway and Modernity Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. This book brings together contributions from a…
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Railway and Modernity
Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. 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. 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.
It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who 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.
Modernity and Continuity
Kundera and Modernity
Tsimtsum and Modernity
Fashion and Modernity
Marriage, Law and Modernity
Jewish Music and Modernity
Art, Faith and Modernity
Manchester and Milford Railway
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Chester and Holyhead Railway