1/25/2024 0 Comments Schivelbusch railway journey![]() ![]() So in this Crash Course World History series, we're talking a lot about a lot of different world history books so that we can approach subjects from a variety of angles. We're going to talk about a small book by Wolfgang Schivelbusch called "The Railway Journey." But, uh, we are going to talk about, like, a specific and essential slice of Industrial Revolution that also like pleases my four-year old self a lot: railroads! I got this movie that's about to film, so yeah, no. Green! Are you going to do a whole series on the Industrial Revolution? Because that actually sounds really boring. John: Hi, I'm John Green this is Crash Course World History, and today, we are returning to a subject that could have a Crash Course series all of its own: the Industrial Revolution. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? ![]() And the quality of boiler manufacturing improved, so the trains exploded less often, which also made people feel safer.Ĭrash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at ![]() All kinds of fears surrounded rail travel, but over time, people got over them. Like any new technology, railroads also scared people. People needed some sort of distraction to ensure they didn't have to talk to other people on the train. Railroads also changed habits, including increasing reading. The railroad changed human perception of time and space, making long-distance travel much faster and easier. You either walked where you wanted to go or rode on an animal to get where you were going. Prior to the invention of steam-powered railroads, pretty much all locomotion had been muscle-powered. 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.In which John Green teaches you about railroads and some of the ways they changed the world, and how they were a sort of microcosm for the Industrial Revolution as a whole. As a history, not of technology, but 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. 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. 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. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. Railway Accident, 'Railway Spine' and Traumatic Neurosis. The Pathology of the Railroad Journey Excursus: Industrial Fatigue The American Railroad Transporation Before the Railroad The Construction of the Railroad The New Type of Carriage River Steamboat and Canal Packet as Models for the American Railroad Car Sea Voyage on Rails Postscript ![]() The Compartment The End of Converstaion while Traveling Isolation Drama in the Compartment The Compartment as a Problem Railroad Space and Railroad Time Excursus: The Space of Glass Architecture Acknowledgements Foreword Alan Trachtenberg Preface to the 2014 Edition.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index. ![]()
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