The omnibus : a cultural history of urban transportation / Elizabeth Amann.
The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation -- in principle, they were 'for everyone' -- they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Snails on the Omnibus
- Chapter 2: Between Innovation and Regression
- Chapter 3: Comic Commonplaces
- Chapter 4: The Social Experience of the Omnibus
- Chapter 5: The Omnibus as Political Metaphor
- Chapter 6: Streetcars of Desire
- Chapter 7: An Observatory of Poverty
- Chapter 8: Winged Coursers of the Mind
- Chapter 9: Epilogue.