Person

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Cultural historian of railway travel and the industrialization of space and time.

Why this matters

Schivelbusch captures modernity's new sensorium—when speed rewires what feels certain.

Works

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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.

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