Riding the New York Subway

The Invention of the Modern Passenger

Stefan Hohne

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MIT Press
04 May 2021

Sociology & anthropology

Series: Infrastructures

A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.

A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.

When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan H hne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. H hne argues that underground transportation--which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing--changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life.

By: Stefan Hohne
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262542012
ISBN 10: 0262542013
Series: Infrastructures
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface to the English Edition xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Utopian Passengers 21 2 Machines and the Masses 73 3 Techniques of the Senses 133 4 Lonely Robots 187 5 Crisis and Complaint 213 6 Limits of Containment 257 Notes 273 Bibliography 339 Index 367

Stefan H hne is a a cultural historian of urbanization and technology and a Mercator Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany.