Ian Carter

British railway enthusiasm (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the post-war train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime's interest.

British railway enthusiasm traces this post-war cohort, and those which followed, as they invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm - train spotting, railway modelling, collecting railway relics - and then, in response to the demise of main line steam traction, Britain's now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors.

The widespread and enduring significance of railway enthusiasm will ensure that this groundbreaking text remains a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526129741
• Artikelnr.: 54361614

Autorenporträt

Ian Carter is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The railway enthusiast's life-world 2. The railway book
(and magazine) mania 3. Associated life 4. Train spotter: the last pariah
5. Preserved lines: playing trains or running a business? 6. Blood on the
tracks 7. Modelling and engineering 8. The rise and fall of the toy train
empire 9. Standards, schism and skill: exclusive brethren 10. A dying fall?
Bibliography Index