World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930

<p>This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this third volume explores the railways through Eurasia.</p> <p>Volume III. Continental Eurasia</p><p>Part 1: <i>Mentalité</i> and the Machine Ensemble: France and Colonies </p><p>1. Paul Verlaine, ‘The Scene behind the Carriage-Window Panes’, in <i>Poems of Paul Verlaine</i> Trans. Gertrude Hall (New York: Duffield, 1906), p. 22.</p><p>2. William Makepeace Thackeray, <i>The Paris Sketchbook of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; The Irish Sketch Book; & Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo</i> (New York: Caxton, 1840), pp. 265-267.</p><p>3. Michael J. Quin, <i>Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, with Railroad Visits to the Principal Cities of Belgium</i>, 2 vols. (London: H. Colburn, 1843), II, pp. 71-75.</p><p>4. George Musgrave, <i>The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris, Tours, and Rouen in the Summer of 1847</i> (London: R. Bentley, 1848), I, pp. 124-135, II, pp. 251-252. </p><p>5. George Musgrave, <i>By-roads and Battle-fields in Picardy,</i> 2 vols. (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), I, pp. 12-13, 212-218. </p><p>6. George Musgrave, <i>A Ramble into Brittany,</i> 2 vols. (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870), I, pp. 91-94. </p><p>7. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, <i>Impressions of a Wanderer in Italy, Switzerland, France, and Spain</i> (London: H. Colburn, 1850), pp. 261-264.</p><p>8. Andrew Dickinson, <i>My First Visit to Europe</i> (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 158-160.</p><p>9. Frank B. Goodrich, <i>Tricolored Sketches in Paris during the Years 1851-2-3</i> (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855), pp. 202-203, 205-206, 210, 216.</p><p>10. Mark Twain, <i>The Innocents Abroad</i> (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), pp. 106-112. </p><p>11. Henry James, <i>A Little Tour in France</i> (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1885), pp. 258-261.</p><p>12. Henry James, <i>Portraits of Places</i> (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1911]), pp. 81-86. </p><p>13. Émile Zola, <i>Germinal</i> (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), pp. 1-10.</p><p>14. Mary Raymond Williams, <i>July and August of 1914</i> (Cleveland: [Press of the Brooks Company], 1915), pp. 78-103.</p><p>15. Marcel Proust, <i>Swann’s Way</i>, 2 vols. Trans. C. K. Moncrieff (New York: Holt, 1922), I, pp, 154-155 II, pp. 104-105, 232-234.</p><p>16. Angus B. Reach, <i>Claret and Oliver, from the Garonne to the Rhone</i> (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853), pp. 63-68. </p><p>17. Charles Richard Weld, <i>The Pyrenees, West and East</i> (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859), pp. 29-35, 45-46, 49. </p><p>18. Gordon Casserly, <i>Algeria To-day</i>, (New York: F. A. Stokes, n.d.), pp. 170-185. </p><p>19. Lewis Gaston Leary, <i>Syria, the Land of Lebanon</i> (New York: McBride, Nast, 1913), pp. 72-78, 80-84, 86-87.</p><p>Part 2: Pathbreakers and Stone Breakers: Belgium, Holland, and Colonies </p><p>20. E. H. Derby, <i>Two Months Abroad</i> (Boston: Redding & Co., 1844), pp. 36-38. </p><p>21. W. C. Dana, <i>A Transatlantic Tour</i> (Philadelphia: Perkins & Purves, 1845), pp. 195-197, 216-219. </p><p>22. Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l’industrie, Brussels, <i>The Congo Railway from Matadi to the Stanley-Pool</i> (Brussels: P. Weissenbruch, 1889), pp. 106-110. </p><p>23. E. D. Morel, <i>Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing in the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906</i>. With an Introduction by Sir Harry Johnston (New York: The Nassau Print, 1906), pp. 91-103. </p><p>24. Reverend J. H. Whitehead, ‘Reports and Letter of Protest to the Governor-General’, in E. D. Morel, <i>Recent Evidence from the Congo</i> (Liverpool: J. Richardson & Sons, 1907), pp. 14-17.</p><p>Part 3: Incongruous <i>Eisenbahn</i>: Railways in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Colonies</p><p>25. J. G. Kohl, <i>Austria, Vienna, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube</i> (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843), pp. 156-158, 160.</p><p>26. John W. Corson, <i>Loiterings in Europe</i> (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848), pp. 222-227, 234-239, 263-266.</p><p>27. Rachel Harriette Busk, <i>The Valleys of Tirol: Their Traditions and Customs, and How to Visit Them</i> (London: Longmans, Green, 1874), pp. 148-149, 168-170, 327.</p><p>28. Robert L. Jefferson, <i>A New Ride to Khiva </i>(New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1900), pp. 32-43.</p><p>29. E. H. Derby, <i>Two Months Abroad</i> (Boston: Redding & Co., 1844), pp. 20-32, 34-36.</p><p>30. Samuel Laing, <i>Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe</i>, Second ed. (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846), pp. 165-169. </p><p>31. Nathaniel Parker Willis, <i>Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure</i> (New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849), pp. 288-289.</p><p>32. Mark Twain, <i>A Tramp Abroad</i> (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1899), pp. 24, 103, 547-549.</p><p>33. Peter Rosegger, <i>The Light Eternal</i> [The Eternal Light] (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907), pp. 246-248.</p><p>34. Adolf Friedrich (Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), <i>From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile</i>, 2 vols. (London: Duckworth & Co., 1913), I, pp. 3-10, II, pp. 196-198.</p><p>35. A. D. C. Russell, ‘The Bagdad Railway’, <i>Quarterly Review</i> 235, 1921, 307-315. </p><p>Part 4: Italia, España, Lusitania: Railways in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Colonies</p><p>36. William J. L. Maxwell, <i>Letters of an Engineer while on Service in Syria in Connection with the Proposed Euphrates Valley Railway and the Beyrout Waterworks</i> (London: Marcus Ward & Co., [1886]), pp. 5-10.</p><p>37. Lina Duff Gordon (Lady Duff Gordon, Caroline Lucie Duff Gordon, Mrs. Aubrey Waterfield), <i>Home Life in Italy: Letters from the Apennines</i>, Second ed. (London: Metheun, 1909), pp. 12-14, 147-151, 174-175, 181-182.</p><p>38. Edmondo de Amicis. <i>Spain and the Spaniards</i> (New York: Putnam, 1885), pp. 277-278. </p><p>39. Henry N. Shore, <i>Three Pleasant Springs in Portugal</i> (London: S. Low, Marston & Company, 1899), pp. 307-314.</p><p>40. James Johnston, <i>Reality versus Romance in South Central Africa</i> (New York: F. H. Revell Company, 1893), pp. 32-35.</p><p>Part 5: Iron Roads to the Iron Mountains of Scandinavia: Railways in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark</p><p>41. Edwin Coolidge Kimball, <i>Midnight Sunbeams, or, Bits of Travel through the Land of the Norseman</i> (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888), pp. 78-86.</p><p>42. William Eleroy Curtis, <i>Denmark, Norway, and Sweden</i> (Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1903), pp. 118-124, 127-128.</p><p>43. Francis E. Clark and Sydney A. Clark, <i>The Charm of Scandinavia</i> (Boston: Little, Brown, 1914), pp. 153-156.</p><p>44. Theóphile Gautier, <i>A Winter in Russia</i> Trans. M. M. Ripley (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1874), pp. 22-24.</p><p>45. Finland Johnson Sherrick. <i>Letters of Travel</i> (N.p.: N.p., 1905), pp. 79-82. </p><p>Part 6: Railways among the Ruins: Greece, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Czechoslovakia, and Serbia</p><p>46. Mark Twain, <i>The Innocents Abroad</i> (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), pp. 417-418. </p><p>47. Mrs. Brassey, <i>Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople</i> (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1880), pp. 354-357, 362-364.</p><p>48. Olive Gilbreath, ‘Men of Bohemia’, <i>Harper’s Magazine</i> 138, 1918-1919, 251-254.</p><p>49. Mary Heaton Vorse, ‘Milorad’, <i>Harper’s Magazine</i> 140, 1919-1920, 256-262.</p><p>Part 7: Russian Prologues, Dialogues, Travelogues</p><p>50. Theóphile Gautier, <i>A Winter in Russia</i>, Trans. M. M. Ripley (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1874), pp. 236-242. </p><p>51. Leo Tolstoy, <i>Anna Karenina</i>, Trans. Nathan Haskell Dole (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1886), pp. 721-725. </p><p>52. The photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), Prokudin-Gorskii Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Washington D.C.</p><p>Captions</p><p>Figure 1. Steam Engine with Prokudin-Gorskii carriage in background. 1910.</p><p>Figure 2. On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway. 1915.</p><p>Figure 3. Uneven tracks near the Ladva Station on Murmansk railway. 1915.</p><p>Figure 4. Bashkir Switchman. 1910.</p><p>Figure 5. Peasant Girls of the Russian Empire. 1909. </p><p>Figure 6. Bashkir woman in a folk costume. 1910.</p><p>Figure 7. Catholic Armenian Women in customary dress. 1905-1915. </p><p>Figure 8. Georgian women in holiday attire in the park of Borzhom. 1905-1915.</p><p>53. Maurice Baring, <i>Russian Essays and Stories</i>, Second Ed. (London: Methuen, 1909), pp. 1-24, 52-55, 63-70.</p><p>Part 8: Strategic Russian Railways, Resources, and Representations</p><p>54. George Dobson, <i>Russia’s Railway Advance into Central Asia; Notes of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Samarkand</i> (London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890), pp. 71-73, 102-104, 109-113, 125-132, 139-144.</p><p>55. C. E. Biddulph, <i>Four Months in Persia and a Visit to Trans-Caspia</i> (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892), pp. 112-117. </p><p>56. Sir Henry Norman, <i>All the Russias: Travels and Studies in Contemporary Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia</i> (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1903), pp. 231-235, 237.</p><p>Part 9: Test of the Russian Will: The Trans-Siberian Railway</p><p>57. Robert L. Jefferson, <i>Roughing it in Siberia</i> (London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1897), pp. 1-11. </p><p>58. James Young Simpson, <i>Side-lights on Siberia; Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System</i> (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898), pp. 147-149.</p><p>59. Isabella L. Bird, <i>Korea and Her Neighbors: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country</i> (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1898), pp. 239-244.</p><p>60. Annette M. B. Meakin, <i>A Ribbon of Iron</i> (Westminster: A. Constable, 1901), pp. 21-25, 110-118, 156-159, 166-172, 273-277.</p><p>61. Leo Deutsch, <i>Sixteen Years in Siberia</i> (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1905), pp. 140-144, 324-327. </p><p>62. Lindon Bates Jr., <i>The Russian Road to China</i> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), pp. 71-74.</p><p>63. Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby, <i>Through Siberia: An Empire in the Making</i> (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913), pp. 231-234.</p><p>Part 10: The Iron Road Meets the Silk Road: Railways in Japan and China</p><p>64. <i>Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry</i> Comp. Francis L. Hawks, (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), pp. 414-418. </p><p>65. Lilias Dunlop Finlay Swainson, <i>Letters from China & Japan</i> (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875), pp. 177-178, 181-183, 194-196.</p><p>66. Isabella Bird, <i>Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior</i>, 2 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1880), pp. 26-32.</p><p>67. E. G. Holtham, <i>Eight Years in Japan, 1873-1881. Work, Travel and Recreation</i> (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), pp. 6-11, 101-112, 122-131, 211-213, 216-217, 247-249, 253-254. </p><p>68. W. S. Caine, <i>A Trip Round the World in 1887-8</i> (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1888), pp. 159-164. </p><p>69. Lafcadio Hearn, <i>Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan</i> (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), pp. 275-279. </p><p>70. Mrs. Hugh Fraser, <i>Letters from Japan</i> (New Edition. New York: Macmillan Co., 1904), pp. 43-45, 326-328, 331.</p><p>71. Marie C. Stopes, <i>A Journal from Japan. A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist</i> (London: Blackie, 1910), pp. 46, 105-106.</p><p>72. Baroness Albert d’Anethan (Eleanora Mary Anethan), <i>Fourteen Years of a Diplomatic Life in Japan</i> (London: S. Paul & Co., [1912]), pp. 358-359. </p><p>73. Frank E. Younghusband, <i>The Heart of a Continent</i> (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1896), pp. 50-52. </p><p>74. John Foster Fraser, <i>The Real Siberia</i> (London: Cassell, 1902), pp. 220-230.</p><p>75. R. Logan Jack, <i>The Back Blocks of China</i> (London: E. Arnold, 1904), pp. 89-93.</p><p>76. Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby, <i>Through Siberia: An Empire in the Making</i> (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913), pp. 203-208.</p><p>77. Sir Alexander Hosie, <i>On the Trail of the Opium Poppy</i>, 2 vols. (London: G. Philip & Son, 1914), I, pp. 3-4, 165-167, 169-172, II, pp. 82-84.</p><p>78. C. E. Bechhofer, <i>A Wanderer’s Log</i> (London: Mills & Boon, 1922), pp. 91-93.</p>