The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space

Year 1987
Pages 219

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The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space by Wolfgang Schivelbusch is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The record for this copy lists 1987 • Univ of California Pr • 219 pages.

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