Mitchell focuses on two important national institutions - the French republican army and the Roman Catholic church - who were attempting to reconsolidate their prerogatives within the still fragile fr
To counter allegations that the United States is being led down a socialist path to a European-style welfare state, this concise account reviews the varieties of European socialism and the benefits of
To counter allegations that the United States is being led down a socialist path to a European-style welfare state, this concise account reviews the varieties of European socialism and the benefits of
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 h
In this companion to his previous book, Nazi Paris, Mitchell recounts controversial German novelist Ernst Junger's years in Paris during the Nazi period. Junger was a military officer during Germany's
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
Mitchell, formerly of Smith College and the U. of California, San Diego, maintains the nature of the relationship between France and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries means
