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The Great Train Race. Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914.
Allan Mitchell
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Description for The Great Train Race. Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914.
Hardback. Comparative historian combines his childhood fascination with trains and his academic interest in France and Germany to examine how the two counties developed the railroad technology after it chugged from Britain to the continent in the 1830s. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 maps, 22 tables, bibliog, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; KNGT; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 668.
From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571811660
SKU
V9781571811660
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About Allan Mitchell
Allan Mitchell (1933-2016) was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He served on the editorial boards of The American Historical Review and Central European History. Trained in both France and Germany, he became a distinguished proponent of comparative European History.
Reviews for The Great Train Race. Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914.
"The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement... A brief sketch of the book's trajectory does justice neither to the wealth of detail nor to the arresting insights that future historians will draw on for years to come." · Central European ... Read more