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Transportation and state --- Railroads --- Railroad travel --- Rail travel --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- History --- E-books

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Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book explores the extraordinary and unprecedented opportunities that the train offered women. An emblem of the conquest of national and imperial space and of the staggering advances of science and technology, the train gave women a taste of its omnipotence, eventually becoming a space of emancipation, transgression, and fear for women. The book brings together the sensation, mystery, realist and early modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analysing women's trajectories within and beyond the city and the nation, as urban passengers, travellers, tourists and colonists.In texts by authors such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Ward, Flora Annie Steel and Mona Caird as well as Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, the ambiguous space of the railway highlights the artificiality of the private/public divide, while giving rise to woman's impulse to traverse boundaries, not only physically but also mentally and emotionally. In the novels, short stories in periodicals, news items and commentaries, essays, illustrations and paintings examined, trains become contact zones of multiple encounters, but also battlefields of gender, class and imperial ideology. Key features: * The first full-length examination of texts by and about women which explore the railway as a gendered space within a British and European context *Explores a variety of cultural discourses which deal with women and the railway: fiction, poetry, news stories and commentaries, essays, paintings, and illustrations *Proposes a reconceptualization of the public/private binary *Concentrates on many understudied writers of the nineteenth century *Includes 9 images to help illustrate the study

English literature --- Railroad travel in literature. --- Women travelers in literature. --- Railroad travel --- Women travelers --- Travelers, Women --- Travelers --- Rail travel --- Railroads --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 1850-1815.

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This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and complex than anticipated either by India's colonial railway builders or currently assumed by post-colonial scholars.

Railroads --- Railroad travel --- Rail travel --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- Iron horses (Railroads) --- Lines, Railroad --- Rail industry --- Rail lines --- Rail transportation --- Railroad industry --- Railroad lines --- Railroad transportation --- Railway industry --- Railways --- Communication and traffic --- Concessions --- Public utilities --- Trusts, Industrial --- Social aspects --- History. --- India --- Civilization --- History --- Bengal --- Bengali language --- Bengalis --- Colonial India --- Colonialism --- Hinduism --- Indian Railways --- Rail transport

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From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing millions to collectively experience the endemic discomforts of third-class travel, the public opportunities for proximity and contact created by railways simultaneously compelled colonial society to confront questions about exclusion, difference, and community. It was not only passengers, however, who were affected by the transformations that railways wrought. Even without boarding a train, one could see railway tracks and embankments reshaping familiar landscapes, realise that train schedules represented new temporal structures, fear that spreading railway links increased the reach of contagion, and participate in new forms of popular politics focused around railway spaces. Tracks of Change explores how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly woven into everyday life in colonial India, how people negotiated with the growing presence of railways, and how this process has shaped India's history.

Railroads --- Railroad travel --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Rail travel --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- Iron horses (Railroads) --- Lines, Railroad --- Rail industry --- Rail lines --- Rail transportation --- Railroad industry --- Railroad lines --- Railroad transportation --- Railway industry --- Railways --- Communication and traffic --- Concessions --- Public utilities --- Trusts, Industrial --- Social aspects --- History. --- India --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- History

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How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.

Railroad travel --- City promotion --- Tourism --- Marketing --- History. --- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company --- Santa Fe (N.M.) --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Boosterism (Place promotion) --- Cities and towns --- Promotion of cities --- Promotion of towns --- Town promotion --- Rail travel --- Railroads --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Economic aspects --- Travel --- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe --- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé R.R. --- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Co. --- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company --- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa-Fe Rail-Road Company --- Atecheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad --- Santa Fe Railroad --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Municipal government --- Place marketing --- Transportation --- Voyages and travels --- Public relations --- Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway --- Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company --- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company --- Marketing&delete& --- History --- E-books