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Download or read book The Railway Man written by Eric Lomax and published by Charnwood. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred, and unable to form relationships, Lomax suffered for years - until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened. Almost 50 years after the war his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive; their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
Book Synopsis The Railway and Modernity by : Matthew Beaumont
Download or read book The Railway and Modernity written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.
Book Synopsis Africa's Freedom Railway by : Jamie Monson
Download or read book Africa's Freedom Railway written by Jamie Monson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. The book follows the railroad from design and construction to its daily use as a vital means for moving villagers and goods. It tells a story of how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, and the rise of local and regional enterprise.
Book Synopsis The Railway Journey by : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
Book Synopsis The Railway Detective by : Edward Marston
Download or read book The Railway Detective written by Edward Marston and published by Railway Detective. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "London, 1851. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the driver and others aboard. With the opening of the Great Expedition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. Planned with military precision, this crime challenges the new Police Force to its limits and leads Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck to discover a tangled web of murder, blackmail and destruction." "As the momentum gains pace, Colbeck closes in on the criminal masterminds. But just as the police begin to think the villains are within their grasp, events take an unexpected turn - Madeleine Andrews, the beautiful daughter of the injured train driver, becomes an unwilling pawn in the criminals' game. In a final race against time, good and evil, new and old, are pitted against each other. But will the long arm of the law be quick enough?"--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Railway Times ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Railway Experience by : Paul Atterbury
Download or read book The Railway Experience written by Paul Atterbury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of the kingdom so strong. However, the history of station buildings and signal boxes, steam and diesel engines, goods and postal services, main lines and branch lines is only part of the story told here. As a cherished part of Britain's heritage, it is the impact of the railways on a human level that has truly captured our imagination. In more than 50 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, Paul Atterbury reveals the people who ran, maintained and used them – the people for whom the railways were a way of life.
Download or read book The Railway Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legislative History of the Railway Labor Act, as Amended (1926 Through 1966) by :
Download or read book Legislative History of the Railway Labor Act, as Amended (1926 Through 1966) written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Railway and Engineering Review by : Walter Mason Camp
Download or read book The Railway and Engineering Review written by Walter Mason Camp and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Railway Investment Guide. How to Make Money in Railway Shares: a Series of Hints and Advice to Parties Speculating by :
Download or read book The Railway Investment Guide. How to Make Money in Railway Shares: a Series of Hints and Advice to Parties Speculating written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Amend the Railway Labor Act by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Download or read book To Amend the Railway Labor Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation to revise the railway labor legislation and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees.
Download or read book The Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Surgeon written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Railway Rates Commission, 7th May, 1895 by : Canada. Railway Rates Commission
Download or read book Report of the Railway Rates Commission, 7th May, 1895 written by Canada. Railway Rates Commission and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway and Marine World written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Railway Shareholder's Manual ... Second edition by : Henry TUCK
Download or read book The Railway Shareholder's Manual ... Second edition written by Henry TUCK and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
