The Railway Journey : The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century

The Railway Journey : The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520059298
Description: Paperback (April 1987)
ISBN: 0520059298

Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology.

But, Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes in this vivid history of early rail travel, the promise of progress and democracy was swiftly compromised. The railroads became an agency for the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and they created a class of passive consumers who simply got aboard and waited to arrive at their destinations. The railroads, Schivelbusch writes, changed the 19th-century world for good and ill.

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