Summary of Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Industrial Revolution, which was a process of denaturalization, began in the last third of the eighteenth century. The abolition of live workmanship by the division of labor corresponded in terms of materials and energies to the emancipation from the boundaries of nature which occurs when natural materials and energies are replaced by mineral or synthetic ones. #2 The waterwheel remained the main energy so