A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930: Volume IV [Hardcover]

This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, volume 4 considers the Americas

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, Harpers 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.

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