A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930

Volume IV
Herausgeber: Esposito, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This third volume covers the railways through the Americas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9780815377559
• ISBN-10: 081537755X
• Artikelnr.: 75515104

Autorenporträt

Matthew Esposito is Professor of History at Drake University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Volume IV. The Americas Part 1: America the Perilous: Cultures of Speed
Equality
and Freedom in the United States 1. Edward Hungerford
'Getting the Traffic Through'
Harper's Magazine 119
1909
876-887. 2. Letters from David Henshaw to the Boston Morning Post
on the Western Rail-Road
and the Greatly Beneficial Effects of Internal Improvements (Boston: Beals and Greene
1839)
pp. 3-8. 3. Henry David Thoreau
Walden: A Story of Life in the Woods (New York: A. L. Burt
1902 [originally published in 1854])
pp. 56-59. 4. Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
The Englishwoman in America (London: John Murray
1856)
pp. 90-115. 5. Charles Weld
A Vacation Tour in the United States (London: Longman
Brown
Green
and Longmans
1859)
pp. 192-197
245-253. 6. Walt Whitman
'To a Locomotive in Winter'
in Leaves of Grass (London: D. Bogue
1881)
358-359. 7. Emily Pfeiffer
Flying Leaves from East to West (London: Field and Tuer
1885)
pp. 118-120. Part 2: Rivers of Iron: Cultures of Railway Construction and Management 8. Henry L. Abbot and R. S. Williamson
'Narrative and Itinerary-Pit River Valley'
Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot upon Explorations for a Railroad Route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River (Washington D.C.: 1857)
pp. 56-75. 9. 'Railway Engineering in the United States
The Atlantic Monthly 2
13 (Nov. 1858)
644-645. 10. Charles De Lano Hine
Letters from an Old Railway Official to His Son
and Division Superintendant (Chicago: The Railway Age
1904)
pp. 1-17. Part 3: From Eastern Excursions to Transcontinental Tourism 11. Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
The Englishwoman in America (London: John Murray
1856)
pp. 125-126
133-152. 12. 'New York's Elevated Train'
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
(May 25
1878)
p. 203. 13. Figure 1
'The Elevated Train in New York'
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
(September 7
1878)
p. 12. 14. Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
The Englishwoman in America (London: John Murray
1856)
pp. 153-158
344-345
439-441. 15. William H. Rideing
'Scenery of the Pacific Railway'
Art Journal
New Series
III (1877)
pp. 105-108
137-140. 16. W. G. Marshall
Through America: or
Nine Months in the United States (London: S. Low
Marston
Searle & Rivington
1881)
pp. 239-241. 17. Robert S. Minot
Railway Travel in Europe and America (Boston: A. Williams
1882)
pp. 9-12. 18. J. L. Dow
The Australian in America (Melbourne: The "Leader" Office
1884)
pp. xi-xii
19-21. 19. George Edward Wright
'The Chicago Limited Express'
A Visit to the States
2 vols. (London: G.E. Wright
1887-88)
pp. 362-372. 20. Lilian Leland
Traveling Alone. A Woman's Journey around the World (New York: American News Company
1890)
pp. 302-313. 21. Lady Howard
Journal of a Tour in the United States
Canada
and Mexico (London: S. Low
Marston
1897)
pp. 76-80. 22. John Foster Fraser
America at Work (London: Cassell
1903)
pp. 124-132. 23. Isabella Bird
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (London: John Murray
1910)
pp. 25-39. Part 4: Railroad Problems and Public Health in the U.S. 24. Sidney Andrews. The South since the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields
1866)
pp. 11
28-32
107-109
201. 25. Figure 2
'The Discomforts of Travel-Weary Passengers'
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
(February 9
1878)
pp. 389. 26. David Christie Murray
The Cockney Columbus (London: Downey & Co.
1898)
pp. 9
98-106. 27. William A. Pinkerton
Train Robberies
Train Robbers
and the "Holdup" Men (1907)
pp. 8-11
16
18
20
22
24
56
58. 28. Jno. C. King and M. D. Banning
'Tuberculosis among Railroad Employees'
California State Journal of Medicine 11
2 (Feb. 1913)
pp. 70-71. 29. '100 Killed
100 Hurt in Train Wreck'
The New York Times
July 10
1918
p. 10. 30. 'Scores Killed or Maimed in Brighton Beach Tunnel Wreck'
The New York Times
November 2
1918
pp. 1
6. Part 5: Extreme Encounters and The Octopus 31. Rose G. Kingsley
South by West; or
Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico (London: W. Isbister
1874)
pp. 160-162. 32. Sir Richard Tangye
Reminiscences of Travel in Australia
America
and Egypt (Birmingham: Printed at the Herald Press
1883)
pp. 151-157. 33. Theodore Roosevelt
'The Rough Riders'
Scribner's Magazine 25
2 (Feb. 1899)
pp. 136-146. 34. Frank Norris
The Octopus: A Story of California (New York: Doubleday
1907)
pp. 247-262. Part 6: The Best in the World: The Dominion of the Canadian Pacific Railway 35. J. T. Breeze
The Dominion of Canada. The Great Institution of Our Country. A Poem on the Grand Trunk Railway (Montreal: n.p.
1867)
pp. 6-8. 36. Charles Westly Busk
Notes of a Journey from Toronto to British Columbia via the Northern Pacific Railway
June to July 1884
Being Letters to his Sister and Mother (London: Taylor and Francis
1884)
pp. 3-6. 37. George Edward Wright
A Canadian Tour: A Report of Letters from the Special Correspondent of the Times (London: George Edward Wright
1886)
pp. 17-21. 38. W. S. Caine
A Trip Round the World in 1887-8 (London: G. Routledge & Sons
1888)
pp. 92-118. 39. James Francis Hogan
The Sister Dominions: Through Canada to Australia by the New Imperial Highway (London: Ward and Downey
1896)
pp. 91-96. 40. George Edward Wright
A Canadian Tour: A Report of Letters from the Special Correspondent of the Times (London: George Edward Wright
1886)
pp. 22-29. 41. David Christie Murray
The Cockney Columbus (London: Downey & Co.
1898)
pp. 109
150-156. 42. John Foster Fraser
Canada as it Is (London: Cassell
1905)
pp. 153-160. Part 7: Corridos and Calaveras: Ballads of Mexican Railroads 43. 'The Railways from Vera Cruz to Jalapa and Mexico'
in Ferguson's Anecdotical Guide to Mexico
with a Map of the Railways (Philadelphia: Claxton
Remsen
& Haffelfinger
1876)
pp. 25-38. 44. 'The Corrido of the Electric Trains'
in 'Corridos from the Porfiriato (the Early 1900s)' in Nora E. Jaffary
Edward W. Osowski and Susie S. Porter (eds)
Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader
Westview Press
2010)
pp. 288-291. Translation by the editors from original publication in Higinio Vazquez Santa Anna
Canciones
cantares y corridos mexicanos (Mexico: Segundo Tomo
León Sánchez
1925-1931
244-245
247-249. 45. John Stealey III (ed.)
Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era
1879-1885 (Kent
Ohio: The Kent State University Press
2006)
pp. 741-743
745-746. 46. Fig. 3. Shooting on a Trolley
Fig. 4. Gran Calavera Eléctrica
Fig. 5. Collision of an Electric Streetcar with a Hearse
from José Guadalupe Posada's Mexican Prints
Roberto Berdecio and Stanley Applebaum (eds.)
Posada's Popular Mexican Prints (New York: Dover Publications
1972)
47. John L. Stoddard
Lectures
10 vols. (Boston: Balch
1899)
vol. VII: Mexico
pp. 89-90
93-94
97-98
101-102
105. 48. Mexico's Great Isthmus Route: A Souvenir of the Visit of President Porfirio Díaz to Tehuantepec to Inspect the Isthmus Railway and the Port Works at Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz (N.p
1905)
pp. 1-5. 49. Johnson Sherrick. Letters of Travel (N.p
1905)
pp. 191-198. 50. John Kenneth Turner
Barbarous Mexico (Chicago: C. H. Kerr
1910)
pp. 49-69. 51. Robert Welles Ritchie
'The Passing of a Dictator'
Harper's Magazine 124 (1911-1912)
pp. 782-789. 52. John Reed
Insurgent Mexico (New York: D. Appleton
1914)
pp. 175-187
191-204. Part 8: Sugar
Coffee
and Bananas: Railroads in Cuba
Central America
and British Jamaica 53. David Turnbull
Travels in the West: Cuba
with Notices of Porto Rico
and the Slave Trade (London: Longman
Orme
Green
and Longmans
1840)
pp. 194-197. 54. W. T. Brigham
'An Uncommercial Republic'
Scribner's Magazine 1 (Jan.-June 1887)
pp. 711-716. 55. Nevin O. Winter
Guatemala and Her People of To-day (Boston: L. C. Page and Company
1909)
pp. 24-29. 56. Henry R. Blaney
The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia
Spanish Honduras
Belize
and the Spanish Main via Boston and New Orleans (Boston: Lee and Shepard
1900)
pp. 73-85. 57. Henry R. Blaney
The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia
Spanish Honduras
Belize
and the Spanish Main via Boston and New Orleans (Boston: Lee and Shepard
1900)
pp. 87-93. 58. Edgar M. Bacon and Eugene Murray-Aaron
The New Jamaica (New York and Kingston: A. W. Gardener
1890)
pp. 73-82. Part 9: Railroads as the Amazon in Tropical Brazil 59. Franz Keller
The Amazon and Madeira Rivers. Sketches and Description from the Notebook of an Explorer (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott
1875)
pp. 140
157-158. 60. Neville B. Craig
Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott
1907)
pp. 367-369
380-383. 61. Frank Vincent
Around and About South America: Twenty Months of Quest and Query (New York: D. Appleton and Co.
1890)
pp. 249-250
260-261
265-266
303. 62. Nevin O. Winter
Brazil and Her People of To-day (Boston: L. C. Page and Company
1910)
pp. 91-95
127-133
254-256. Part 10: Conquering América del Sur: aRailroad Cultures in the River Plate
Chile
and Caribbean South America 63. Central Argentine Railway Company
Letters Concerning the Country of the Argentine Republic (South America)
Being Suitable for Emigrants and Capitalists to Settle In (London: Waterlow and Sons
1869)
pp. 1-16
32-33. 64. John Foster Fraser
The Amazing Argentina. A New Land of Enterprise (London: Cassell
1910)
pp. 134-138. 65. Carlos María de Pena
The Oriental Republic of Uruguay at the World's Columbian Exhibition
Chicago
1893 (Montevideo: n.p
1893)
pp. 24
36-38. 66. W. H. Koebel
Paraguay (London: T. F. Unwin
1917)
pp. 231-239. 67. Mrs. George B. Merwin
Three Years in Chili (New York: Follett
Foster
1863)
pp. 1-9
121-123. 68. Francis E. Clark
The Continent of Opportunity Second ed. (New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada
1907)
pp. 181-189. 69. Johnson Sherrick
Around the World and South America (Canton
Ohio: The Repository Press
1912)
pp. 235-243. 70. Adolfo de Clairmont
Guide to Modern Peru: Its Great Advantages and Vast Opportunities (Toledo
Ohio: Barkdull
1907)
pp. 50-60. 71. Marie Robinson Wright
The Old and the New Peru (Philadelphia: G. Barrie & Sons
1908)
pp. 367-374
377-386. 72. Edward Whymper
Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator (New York: C. Scribner's Sons
1892)
pp. 385-391. 73. Marie Robinson Wright
Bolivia: The Central Highway of South America (Philadelphia: G. Barrie & Sons
1907)
pp. 203-218. 74. Santiago Pérez Triana
Down the Orinoco in a Canoe (New York: Crowell
1902)
pp. 240-248. 75. Henry R. Blaney
The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia
Spanish Honduras
Belize
and the Spanish Main via Boston and New Orleans (Boston: Lee and Shepard
1900)
pp. 4-12. 76. Hamilton Mercer Wright
A Traveler in Northern Colombia (Washington
D. C.: Government Printing Office
1918)
pp. 6
8
10
12
14. 77. Fassenden N. Otis
Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad (New York: Harper & Brothers
1862)
pp. 46
49
72
75-82
85-86
89-92
95-98
103-104
110
115-116
121
127.