As of 2014, he is a visiting scholar at the Emmy Noether Research Group “The Future in the Stars. 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. It is not intended to be a history of travel. This book is about the social/psychological impact of railway travel in Western Europe ancl North America. Since 1974, Wolfgang Schivelbusch has been dividing his time between New York and Berlin. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 515 The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the 19th Century. His numerous and award-winning publications, many translated into several languages, include The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century (1979), Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (1988), Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants (1992), In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948 (1998), The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery (2003), and Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 (2006). Semantic Scholar extracted view of 'The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century' by W. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. Between 20, he was a frequent visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. The Railway Journey : Trains & Travel in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch - ISBN 10: 0631196609 - ISBN 13: 9780631196600 - Urizen Books - 1980 - Hardcover. From 1995 to 2000, he was a project collaborator at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. The Railway Journey, Wolfgang Schivelbusch 9780520282261 Livres bol. 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. Cultural historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch studied comparative literature, philosophy and sociology in Frankfurt and Berlin and received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in 1972. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a. But this was not always the case as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century Hardcover Novemby Wolfgang Schivelbusch (Author) 4.6 4.
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