of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has. Overall the paper argues for dialogue rather than deference with this important work in the cultural history of transport. The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by. It works with the idea of ‘traumatic shock’ to makes some suggestions hinting at a more creative engagement with his work. Schivelbuschs contention that rail travel. The paper then continues with a discussion which reflects on the conceptual basis of Schivelbusch’s approach. She relies on the classic work by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Rail Journey.7 Here, one can only encourage caution. In order to develop this argument, the following two sections examine in turn key themes of ‘panoramic perception’ and ‘the machine ensemble’. This paper argues that The Railway Journey has both enabled and constrained study of the cultural history of railways within transport history. Writing in the late 1970s Schivelbusch raised a series of issues which transformed our understanding of the railway’s place within cultural histories of modernity. Wolfgang Schivelbusch Limited preview - 1986. University of California Press, 1986 - Social Science - 203 pages. The culturally informed approach to histories of technology adopted by Schivelbusch has played an important role enabling railway historians to recognise the broader cultural and intellectual contexts in which the railway has been experienced historically. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space. It is quoted and referenced widely by social and cultural historians of the nineteenth century and by historians of travel and transport. 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. It is hard to dispute the assertion that Wolfgang Schibvelbusch's book originally published in 1977 as The Railway Journey: trains and travel in the 19th Century (translated from German by Anselm Hollo) has become a landmark in railway history. 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. Neuchatel, Suisse: Editions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, pp. The dissertation will examine the root cause of these concerns around the railway and argue. Yearbook of Transport, Travel and Mobility (T2M), 3. Mobility in History: reviews and reflections. In: Norton, Peter Mom, Gijs Milward, Liz and Flonneau, Mathieu eds. Perception, reception and representation: Wolfgang Schivelbusch and the cultural history of travel and transport. The Railway Journey: the Industrialization of Time and space in the 19 th Century.
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