Riding the New York Subway: The Invention of the Modern Passenger - Couverture souple

Hohne, Stefan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262542013 ISBN 13 : 9780262542012

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2021

Synopsis

A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.

When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Höhne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. Höhne argues that underground transportation--which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing--changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stefan Höhne is a a cultural historian of urbanization and technology and a Mercator Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262542013
• ISBN 13: 9780262542012
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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