Trains, Culture, and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological, and urban theories. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility and i…
A world history of railway cultures, 1830-1930
A world history of railway cultures: 1830-1930
A world history of railway cultures: 1830-1930
A world history of railway cultures, 1830-1930
Railways in modern India
by Kerr, Ian J.
fromOxford in India readings : Themes in Indian history
In diesem Buch wird die technische Pionierleistung des Wirtschaftstheoretikers Friedrich List (1789-1846), die er für den Ausbau der Eisenbahn in den USA vollbracht hat, eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Mit dem Bau der Little Schuylkill-Eisenbahn in Pennsylvania förderte List die Infr…
La experiencia ferroviaria en América Latina : una introducción / Sandra Kuntz Ficker -- México / Sandra Kuntz Ficker -- Antillas / Oscar Zanetti Lecuona -- Colombia / Juan Santiago Correa R. -- Perú / Luis Felipe Zegarra -- Brasil / Maria Lúcia Lamounier -- Uruguay / Gastón Día…
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…