His wife, Helma von Kieseritzky, said the cause was bacterial meningitis complicated by sepsis, Covid-19 and pneumonia. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch 492 ratings, 4.
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His death was not widely reported outside Europe. He wrote them in his native German (most were translated into English) from his Manhattan apartment, where he spent winters, and his home in Berlin, where he died in a hospital on March 26 at 81. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.Ever wonder why railroad tracks in America meander but English tracks ordinarily run straight? What was the traditional breakfast drink in Europe before coffee came along? How did the introduction of gas mains transform family life? Why did the Confederate battle flag become so enduring a symbol? Who was missing when the United States military ceremonially declared victory in Iraq?įor four decades, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a polymathic cultural historian, feasted on those and other brainteasers as he explored, in about a dozen groundbreaking books, mass transportation, spices and stimulants, commercial lighting, the legacy of defeat on society, and more. 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.īelonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Buy The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century First Edition, with a New Preface ed. Schivelbusch wuchs in Frankfurt am Main auf und absolvierte nach dem Abitur ein Volontariat beim Wiesbadener Kurier.Anschließend studierte er zunächst an der FU Berlin, dann an der Universität Frankfurt Literaturwissenschaft, Soziologie und Philosophie, unter anderem bei Theodor W. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century 1st Edition, Kindle Edition.
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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 travel. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, born on Novenber 11th, 1941, died on March 26th, 2023, has been one of the internationally most widely renowned German historians since the 1970s.
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In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. But this was not always the case as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change-the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness-was very much a learned behavior. Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. The Railway Journey : Trains & Travel in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch - ISBN 10: 0631196609 - ISBN 13: 9780631196600 - Urizen Books - 1980 - Hardcover.