Die Ungeduld mit der Zeit. Britische und Deutsche Bahnpassagiere im Eisenbahnzeitalter
- Submitting institution
-
University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 2402
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1515/hzhz-2019-0002
- Title of journal
- Historische Zeitschrift
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 46
- Volume
- 308
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 0018-2613
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- German. New possibilities created by faster trains, synchronized clocks or regulation of passenger movements only tell us so much about how people perceive and use time in their everyday lives. When it comes to time, the place of the action matters often more than the conventions of linear time. Drawing on British/German railway passengers' experiences, this article demonstrates that the 19th-century, usually described as a period of acceleration, was also an age of rising impatience. This widespread sense of restlessness was not primarily a reflection of national characteristics. What proved more instrumental was the acceleration and growth of railway communication.
