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
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
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
