The Great Train Race : Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914
| Author/creator |
Mitchell, Allan Author |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, Incorporated Herndon : Books International, Incorporated [Distributor] |
| Description | 344 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation 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 an 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 assimilated differently by these two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the First Industrial Revolution. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00034266 |
| ISBN | 9781571811660 |
| ISBN | 1571811664 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781571811660 |
| Stock number | 00097533 |
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