A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830–1930 Vol. III: Continental Eurasia 3

A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor's original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs. Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS VOLUME III Continental Eurasia The Godlike animator PART 1 Mentalité and the machine ensemble: France and colonies 1 Paul Verlaine, ‘The Scene behind the Carriage-Window Panes’, in Poems of Paul Verlaine, Trans. Gertrude Hall (New York: Duffield, 1906), p. 22 2 William Makepeace Thackeray, The Paris Sketchbook of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; The Irish Sketch Book; & Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (New York: Caxton, 1840), pp. 265–267 3 Michael J. Quin, Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, with Railroad Visits to the Principal Cities of Belgium, 2 vols. (London: H. Colburn, 1843), II, pp. 71–75 4 George Musgrave, The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris, Tours, and Rouen in the Summer of 1847 (London: R. Bentley, 1848), I, pp. 124–135, II, pp. 251–252 5 George Musgrave, By-roads and Battle-fields in Picardy, 2 vols. (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), I, pp. 12–13, 212–218 6 George Musgrave, A Ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870), I, pp. 91–94 7 Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Impressions of a Wanderer in Italy, Switzerland, France, and Spain (London: H. Colburn, 1850), pp. 261–264 8 Andrew Dickinson, My First Visit to Europe (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 158–160 9 Frank B. Goodrich, Tricolored Sketches in Paris during the Years 1851–2–3 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855), pp. 202–203, 205–206, 210, 216 10 Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), pp. 106–112 11 Henry James, A Little Tour in France (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1885), pp. 258–261 12 Henry James, Portraits of Places (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1911), pp. 81–86 13 Émile Zola, Germinal (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), pp. 1–10 14 Mary Raymond Williams, July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: Press of the Brooks Company, 1915), pp. 78–103 15 Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, 2 vols. Trans. C. K. Moncrieff (New York: Holt, 1922), I, pp. 154–155 II, pp. 104–105, 232–234 16 Angus B. Reach, Claret and Oliver, from the Garonne to the Rhone (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853), pp. 63–68 17 Charles Richard Weld, The Pyrenees, West and East (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859), pp. 29–35, 45–46, 49 18 Gordon Casserly, Algeria To-day (New York: F. A. Stokes, n.d.), pp. 170–185 19 Lewis Gaston Leary, Syria, the Land of Lebanon (New York: McBride, Nast, 1913), pp. 72–78, 80–84, 86–87 PART 2 Pathbreakers and stone breakers: Belgium, Holland, and colonies 20 E. H. Derby, Two Months Abroad (Boston: Redding & Co., 1844), pp. 36–38 21 W. C. Dana, A Transatlantic Tour (Philadelphia: Perkins & Purves, 1845), pp. 195–197, 216–219 22 Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l’industrie, Brussels, The Congo Railway from Matadi to the Stanley-Pool (Brussels: P. Weissenbruch, 1889), pp. 106–110 23 E. D. Morel, Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing in the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906. With an Introduction by Sir Harry Johnston (New York: The Nassau Print, 1906), pp. 91–103 24 Reverend J. H. Whitehead, ‘Reports and Letter of Protest to the Governor-General’, in E. D. Morel, Recent Evidence from the Congo (Liverpool: J. Richardson & Sons, 1907),pp. 14–17 PART 3 Incongruous Eisenbahn: railways in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and colonies 25 J. G. Kohl, Austria, Vienna, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843), pp. 156–158, 160 26 John W. Corson, Loiterings in Europe (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848), pp. 222–227, 234–239, 263–266 27 Rachel Harriette Busk, The Valleys of Tirol: Their Traditions and Customs, and How to Visit Them (London: Longmans, Green, 1874), pp. 148–149, 168–170, 327 28 Robert L. Jefferson, A New Ride to Khiva (New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1900), pp. 32–43 29 E. H. Derby, Two Months Abroad (Boston: Redding & Co., 1844), pp. 20–32, 34–36 30 Samuel Laing, Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe, Second ed. (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846), pp. 165–169 31 Nathaniel Parker Willis, Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure (New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849), pp. 288–289 32 Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1899), pp. 24, 103, 547–549 33 Peter Rosegger, The Light Eternal [The Eternal Light] (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907), pp. 246–248 34 Adolf Friedrich (Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile, 2 vols. (London: Duckworth & Co., 1913), I, pp. 3–10, II, pp. 196–198 35 A. D. C. Russell, ‘The Bagdad Railway’, Quarterly Review 235, 1921, 307–315 PART 4 Italia, España, Lusitania: railways in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and colonies 36 William J. L. Maxwell, Letters of an Engineer while on Service in Syria in Connection with the Proposed Euphrates Valley Railway and the Beyrout Waterworks (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1886), pp. 5–10 37 Lina Duff Gordon (Lady Duff Gordon, Caroline Lucie Duff Gordon, Mrs. Aubrey Waterfield), Home Life in Italy: Letters from the Apennines, Second ed. (London: Metheun, 1909), pp. 12–14, 147–151, 174–175, 181–182 38 Edmondo de Amicis, Spain and the Spaniards (New York: Putnam, 1885), pp. 277–278 39 Henry N. Shore, Three Pleasant Springs in Portugal (London: S. Low, Marston & Company, 1899), pp. 307–314 40 James Johnston, Reality versus Romance in South Central Africa (New York: F. H. Revell Company, 1893), pp. 32–35 PART 5 Iron roads to the iron mountains of Scandinavia: railways in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark 41 Edwin Coolidge Kimball, Midnight Sunbeams, or, Bits of Travel through the Land of the Norseman (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888), pp. 78–86 42 William Eleroy Curtis, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1903), pp. 118–124, 127–128 43 Francis E. Clark and Sydney A. Clark, The Charm of Scandinavia (Boston: Little, Brown, 1914), pp. 153–156 44 Theóphile Gautier, A Winter in Russia, Trans. M. M. Ripley (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1874), pp. 22–24 45 Finland Johnson Sherrick, Letters of Travel (N.p.: N.p., 1905), pp. 79–82 PART 6 Railways among the ruins: Greece, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Czechoslovakia, and Serbia 46 Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), pp. 417–418 47 Mrs. Brassey, Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1880), pp. 354–357, 362–364 48 Olive Gilbreath, ‘Men of Bohemia’, Harper’s Magazine 138, 1918–1919, 251–254 49 Mary Heaton Vorse, ‘Milorad’, Harper’s Magazine 140, 1919–1920, 256–262 PART 7 Russian prologues, dialogues, travelogues 50 Theóphile Gautier, A Winter in Russia, Trans. M. M. Ripley (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1874), pp. 236–242 51 Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Trans. Nathan Haskell Dole (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1886), pp. 721–725 52 The photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944), Prokudin-Gorskii Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Washington D.C. 53 Maurice Baring, Russian Essays and Stories, Second Ed. (London: Methuen, 1909), pp. 1–24, 52–55, 63–70 PART 8 Strategic Russian railways, resources, and representations 54 George Dobson, Russia’s Railway Advance into Central Asia; Notes of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Samarkand (London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890), pp. 71–73, 102–104, 109–113, 125–132, 139–144 55 C. E. Biddulph, Four Months in Persia and a Visit to Trans-Caspia (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892), pp. 112–117 56 Sir Henry Norman, All the Russias: Travels and Studies in Contemporary Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1903), pp. 231–235, 237 PART 9 Test of the Russian will: the Trans-Siberian Railway 57 Robert L. Jefferson, Roughing it in Siberia (London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1897), pp. 1–11 58 James Young Simpson, Side-lights on Siberia; Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898), pp. 147–149 59 Isabella L. Bird, Korea and Her Neighbors: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1898), pp. 239–244 60 Annette M. B. Meakin, A Ribbon of Iron (Westminster: A. Constable, 1901), pp. 21–25, 110–118, 156–159, 166–172, 273–277 61 Leo Deutsch, Sixteen Years in Siberia (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1905), pp. 140–144, 324–327 62 Lindon Bates Jr., The Russian Road to China (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), pp. 71–74 63 Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby, Through Siberia: An Empire in the Making (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913), pp. 231–234 PART 10 The iron road meets the silk road: railways in Japan and China 64 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, Comp. Francis L. Hawks (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), pp. 414–418 65 Lilias Dunlop Finlay Swainson, Letters from China & Japan (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875), pp. 177–178, 181–183, 194–196 66 Isabella Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior, 2 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1880), pp. 26–32 67 E. G. Holtham, Eight Years in Japan, 1873–1881. Work, Travel and Recreation (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), pp. 6–11, 101–112, 122–131, 211–213, 216–217, 247–249, 253–254 68 W. S. Caine, A Trip Round the World in 1887–8 (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1888), pp. 159–164 69 Lafcadio Hearn, Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), pp. 275–279 70 Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Letters from Japan (New Edition. New York: Macmillan Co., 1904), pp. 43–45, 326–328, 331 71 Marie C. Stopes, A Journal from Japan. A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist (London: Blackie, 1910), pp. 46, 105–106 72 Baroness Albert d’Anethan (Eleanora Mary Anethan), Fourteen Years of a Diplomatic Life in Japan (London: S. Paul & Co., 1912), pp. 358–359 73 Frank E. Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1896), pp. 50–52 74 John Foster Fraser, The Real Siberia (London: Cassell, 1902), pp. 220–230 75 R. Logan Jack, The Back Blocks of China (London: E. Arnold, 1904), pp. 89–93 76 Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby, Through Siberia: An Empire in the Making (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913), pp. 203–208 77 Sir Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, 2 vols. (London: G. Philip & Son, 1914), I, pp. 3–4, 165–167, 169–172, II, pp. 82–84 78 C. E. Bechhofer, A Wanderer’s Log (London: Mills & Boon, 1922), pp. 91–93 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, this third volume explores the railways through Eurasia.-- Provided by publisher