From Rail to Road and Back Again? A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency

摘要

It is only in the last decade or so that scholars have come to recognise the long-run historical importance of inter-modal competition and cooperation. The historiography had earlier tended to focus on particular modes, especially but not only, railways and single countries. This volume, as the title suggests, promises a much wider, more ambitious perspective - the changing relationships between rail and road from the nineteenth century to the present day. The volume takes in the experience of five countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy, with a number of cross-references to others.