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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Epigraph
Foreword by Alan Trachtenberg
Preface to the 2014 Edition
1. The Mechanization of Motive Power
2. The Machine Ensemble
3. Railroad Space and Railroad Time
Excursus: The Space of Glass Architecture
4. Panoramic Travel
5. The Compartment
The End of Conversation while Traveling
Isolation
Drama in the Compartment
The Compartment as a Problem
6. The American Railroad
Transportation Before the Railroad
The Construction of the Railroad
The New Type of Carriage
River Steamboat and Canal Packet as Models for the American Railroad Car
Sea Voyage on Rails
Postscript
7. The Pathology of the Railroad Journey
Excursus: Industrial Fatigue
8. The Accident
Accident and Crisis
9. Railway Accident, ‘Railway Spine’ and Traumatic Neurosis
Excursus: The History of Shock
10. Stimulus Shield: or, the Industrialized Consciousness
11. The Railroad Station: Entrance to the City
12. Tracks in the City
13. Circulation
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Index
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