Author: Alexander Medcalf
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319708570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book explores the phenomenal resources dedicated to understanding and encouraging passengers to consume travel from 1900 to 1939, analysing how place and travel were presented for sale. Using the Great Western Railway as a chief case study, as well as a range of its competitors both on and off the rails, Alexander Medcalf unravels the complex and ever-changing processes behind corporate sales communications. This volume analyses exactly how the company pictured passengers in the countryside, at the seaside, in the urban landscape and in the company’s vehicles. This thematic approach brings transport and business history thoroughly in line with tourism and leisure history as well as studies in visual culture.
Railway Photographic Advertising in Britain, 1900-1939
Author: Alexander Medcalf
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319708570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book explores the phenomenal resources dedicated to understanding and encouraging passengers to consume travel from 1900 to 1939, analysing how place and travel were presented for sale. Using the Great Western Railway as a chief case study, as well as a range of its competitors both on and off the rails, Alexander Medcalf unravels the complex and ever-changing processes behind corporate sales communications. This volume analyses exactly how the company pictured passengers in the countryside, at the seaside, in the urban landscape and in the company’s vehicles. This thematic approach brings transport and business history thoroughly in line with tourism and leisure history as well as studies in visual culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319708570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book explores the phenomenal resources dedicated to understanding and encouraging passengers to consume travel from 1900 to 1939, analysing how place and travel were presented for sale. Using the Great Western Railway as a chief case study, as well as a range of its competitors both on and off the rails, Alexander Medcalf unravels the complex and ever-changing processes behind corporate sales communications. This volume analyses exactly how the company pictured passengers in the countryside, at the seaside, in the urban landscape and in the company’s vehicles. This thematic approach brings transport and business history thoroughly in line with tourism and leisure history as well as studies in visual culture.
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Author: Benjamin Fraser
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739167499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739167499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Historical Abstracts
Author: Eric H. Boehm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Dictionary of Picture Postcards in Britain, 1894-1939
Author: A. W. Coysh
Publisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Full of relevant information, this book covers the whole field of picture postcard production in Britain. It is an indispensable reference to a vast amount of collectable pictorial material.
Publisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Full of relevant information, this book covers the whole field of picture postcard production in Britain. It is an indispensable reference to a vast amount of collectable pictorial material.
Graphis
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Picture Sources UK
Author: Rosemary Eakins
Publisher: Little Brown and Company (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher: Little Brown and Company (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Trains
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Railway Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Design and the Decorative Arts
Author: Michael Snodin
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
London was rivalled only by Paris as a focus for international interest in design and the decorative arts. By the nineteenth century, British design was widely admired and copied. Its products could be found right across the globe, from palaces and stately homes to the living rooms of ordinary people.".
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
London was rivalled only by Paris as a focus for international interest in design and the decorative arts. By the nineteenth century, British design was widely admired and copied. Its products could be found right across the globe, from palaces and stately homes to the living rooms of ordinary people.".