Subterranean Cities

by David L. Pike

Book Overview

The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801472563
• ISBN13: 9780801472565
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher