... world of luxury, refinements, and comforts of London, which not even the imagination of those who merely stroll ... barricaded with the numbers that were rapidly gathering, and all eyes elevated towards the roof of my building.
unfinished projects of Africa: “At one place we saw a wrecked train on its side, and at another the train had fallen ... heads at the whirr of passing aircraft.159 Part 1: mobility and mutability The first section on railway cultures ...
135 Wells and Joseph, Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval, 51. 136 Dumond, The Machete and the Cross, 384–386. 137 Bergquist, 26, fn.4, 67, 133, 138. 138 Dumond, The Machete and the Cross, 389, 528 fn.4.
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression.
... Black Devil and Iron Angel examined the dialectic of science and myth in the German people's receptivity of trains. While his focus on the realist literature of five German authors may appear narrow as an evidence base, his insightful ...