A 19th Century Railway Station

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750002158
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A 19th Century Railway Station written by Fiona Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations describe the planning, construction, and activities of a nineteenth-century railway station.

Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957903
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. 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. 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. 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. 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, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. 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.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Station written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful and wide-ranging compendium' (Books and Bookmen) captures the mystique of railway stations by crossing the disciplines of history, literature, art, and architecture in a sweeping global survey unique in its scope.

Author : Andrew Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987605443
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Story of Stations written by Andrew Ward and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the station buildings of the Victorian Railways, told for the first time as a comprehensive history. It begins in the 1850s when the colony's first railways were opened by privately owned companies and follows the colourful story of station building by the Department up to the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Carroll L. V. Meeks
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486286274
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railroad Station written by Carroll L. V. Meeks and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated book chronicles the evolution of the architecture of the railroad station in both Europe and America from the 1830s to the 1950s. "Carefully documented by all the apparatus of exacting scholarship, and even better by a fascinating collection of more than 230 pictures." — The New York Times.

Author : John CARY (Geographer)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cary's New Itinerary; or, an Accurate delineation of the great roads ... throughout England and Wales; with many of the principal roads in Scotland from ... actual admeasurement written by John CARY (Geographer) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Railway Station written by Steven Parissien and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The railway station is one of England s most distinctive, characterful and best-loved building-types. Yet over the past century the nation s stations have often been overlooked or dismissed, and have suffered accordingly."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Names of Victorian Railway Stations written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000383652
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth Century to the Present written by Anne Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866–1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures.

Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241978998
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations written by Simon Jenkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain's 1000 Best Churches It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.