Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Schivelbusch, Wolfgang.
His wife, Helma von Kieseritzky, said the cause was bacterial meningitis complicated by sepsis, Covid-19 and pneumonia. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century on JSTOR. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. His death was not widely reported outside Europe. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. He wrote them in his native German (most were translated into English) from his Manhattan apartment, where he spent winters, and his home in Berlin, where he died in a hospital on March 26 at 81. Ever wonder why railroad tracks in America meander but English tracks ordinarily run straight? What was the traditional breakfast drink in Europe before coffee came along? How did the introduction of gas mains transform family life? Why did the Confederate battle flag become so enduring a symbol? Who was missing when the United States military ceremonially declared victory in Iraq?įor four decades, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a polymathic cultural historian, feasted on those and other brainteasers as he explored, in about a dozen groundbreaking books, mass transportation, spices and stimulants, commercial lighting, the legacy of defeat on society, and more.