ABSTRACT
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 Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world.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, the second volume spans the British Empire.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
Mobility and Mutability
part 2|47 pages
Modernity and the Masses
part 3|27 pages
Kipling’s Railway Kingdom
part 4|29 pages
Anglo-Indian Junctions
part 5|43 pages
Colonial Railways
part 6|26 pages
Railways and the Spread of Epidemic Disease
part 7|48 pages
Railways and Crime
part 8|40 pages
The Railway as Oasis
part 9|82 pages
Railways and the Re-Partitioning of British Africa
part 10|53 pages
Australiana and Aborigines