e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr.
Subjects
Steamboats -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Steamboats -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Steam-navigation -- History -- 19th century.
Passenger ships -- History -- 19th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
Tourism -- History -- 19th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr.
by title:
Engines of empire : ...
by call number:
387.2044 B955e
Search the Web
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr.
Steamboats -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Steamboats -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Steam-navigation -- History -- 19th century.
Passenger ships -- History -- 19th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
Tourism -- History -- 19th century.
MARC Display
Engines of empire : steamships and the Victorian imagination /
Douglas
R
.
Burgess
,
Jr
.
by
Burgess
,
Douglas
R
.,
Jr
.
Stanford University Press, c2016.
Call #:
387.2044 B955e
Subjects
Steamboats -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Steamboats -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Steam-navigation -- History -- 19th century.
Passenger ships -- History -- 19th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
Tourism -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780804798068 (hc)
0804798060 (hc)
Description:
viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : annihilating space -- Phantasmagoria : steam and spectacle in the public sphere -- Selling the Mammoth : the commodification of wonder -- Leviathans : ships as fantasy -- Honor and glory crowning time : disaster sermons and the cult of technology -- Ordinary escapes : American steamboats and the masquerade of class -- One small iron country : social hierarchies on the North Atlantic -- Vandals abroad : travelogues and the pleasure cruise -- The dollars are coming : steam tourism and the transformation of space -- Tiffin for griffins : educating imperial administrators on the long voyage -- The floating Kaiser : steamships and national identity -- Sitting in darkness : critiquing imperialism from the top deck -- Conclusion : transportation is civilization.
Summary:
In 1859, the S. S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was the remarkable wonder of the nineteenth cnetury: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for the Raj. Yet she ended her days as a floating carnival before being unceremoniously dimantled in 1889. Steamships like the Great Eastern occupied a singular places in the Victorian mind. Crossing oceans, ferrying tourists and troops alike, they became emblems of nationalism, modernity, and humankind's triumph over the cruel elements. Throughout the nineteenth century, the spectacle of a ships launch was one of the most recognizable symbols of British socail and technological progress. Yet this celebrations of the power of the empire masked overconfidence and an almost religious veneration of technology. Equating steam with civilization had catastrophic consequences for subjugated peoples around the world. Engines of Empire tells the story of the complex relationship between Victorians and their wonderous steamships, following famous travelers like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jules Vernee, as wo as ordinary spectators, tourists and imperial administrators, as they crossed oceans bound for the colornies. Rich with anedotes and wry humor, it is fascinating glimpse into a world where an empire felt powreful and anything seemeed possible - if there was an engine behind it. -- from dust jacket.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
387.2044 B955e
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.