Riding the New York Subway : the invention of the modern passenger /
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, St...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
The MIT Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Infrastructures
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 Hohne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262363259 0262363259 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/11952.001.0001 |