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.
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