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The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Why this matters here
Wolfgang Schivelbusch analyzes the nineteenth-century transformation of spatial and temporal experience through the railway. The chapter invokes this account for the felt effects of industrial synchronization rather than as the statistical record of time-standard adoption.
