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Book Synopsis On the Fast Track by : Jacob Meunier
Download or read book On the Fast Track written by Jacob Meunier and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on the one hand, yet also fearing their economic and social impact. All this changed with the introduction of the famed Train á Grande Vitesse (TGV) between Paris and Lyon in the early 1980s. In vivid detail, Meunier describes the political, economic, and social factors that both helped and hindered the development of the world's fastest, most technologically advanced train. The present-day enthusiasm in France for high-speed rail travel dates only to the successful launch of the now-famous TGV in 1981. Until now, most published accounts of French high-speed rail have been of a technical nature and have ignored or minimized the historical, political, economic, and social context. Historians have been left with detailed descriptions of locomotives and experimental test runs, but there has been scant information cercerning why the machines were built and why the tests were carried out in the first place. This book is the first full-length treatment of high-speed rail travel and the bibliography is one of the most complete on the subject.
Download or read book Rail International written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Rail to Road and Back Again? by : Colin Divall
Download or read book From Rail to Road and Back Again? written by Colin Divall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
Book Synopsis Histoire Véridique de la Grande Guerre by : Jacques Isorni
Download or read book Histoire Véridique de la Grande Guerre written by Jacques Isorni and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Europe's High Speed Trains by : Mitchell P. Strohl
Download or read book Europe's High Speed Trains written by Mitchell P. Strohl and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the evolving network of high-speed passenger trains in Western Europe and the geographic and economic background to their planning, construction, and operation.
Download or read book Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shaping Modern Times in Rural France by : Susan Carol Rogers
Download or read book Shaping Modern Times in Rural France written by Susan Carol Rogers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of "Ste Foy" during a period of rapid change (1945-75). Using ethnographic field data and archival material that she collected as a "participant-observer," she finds an intriguing puzzle: an allegedly archaic social form, the ostal, has become increasingly common in the community. The ostal, a type of family farm organized around an extended "stem family" household, is a variant of the stem family systems associated with preindustrial southern Europe. How have Ste Foyans continued to remake this "archaic" mode as their community grew more prosperous and more involved in national and international markets? In showing how the specific identity of a community is reproduced rather than obliterated by modernization, the author reveals dialectical relationships between structure and change, history and culture, and the centralized nation-state and regional diversity. This analysis addresses anthropologists, historians, and scholars interested in local politics and economic development.
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Download or read book Journal Des Instituteurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mélanges Offerts Par Ses Amis Et Disciples À Maurice Pardé ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Marnie Lynn Fleming Publisher :[Oakville, Ont.] : Oakville Galleries in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography = Oakville Galleries en collab. avec le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine ISBN 13 : Total Pages :134 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Chroniques en Rail by : Marnie Lynn Fleming
Download or read book Chroniques en Rail written by Marnie Lynn Fleming and published by [Oakville, Ont.] : Oakville Galleries in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography = Oakville Galleries en collab. avec le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposition collective regroupant : Arden, Roy, 1957- ; Benner, Ron, 1949- ; Frenkel, Vera, 1938- ; Grauerholz, Angela, 1952- ; Link, O. Winston, 1911- ; Noguchi, Louise, 1958- ; Rudolph, Glenn, 1946- ; Tomas, David G. (David Georges), 1950- ; Walker, Douglas, 1958- ; Walter, Kathryn ; Welling, James, 1951- .
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Download or read book Rail written by Pierre Hamp and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis La Grande technologie entre l'Etat et le marché by : Dominique Finon
Download or read book La Grande technologie entre l'Etat et le marché written by Dominique Finon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis La Grande Arche de La Défense by : François Chaslin
Download or read book La Grande Arche de La Défense written by François Chaslin and published by Electra Moniteur. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jules Tavernier by : Scott A. Shields
Download or read book Jules Tavernier written by Scott A. Shields and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French artist Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) was one of the American West's foremost talents, with a natural ability that many believed was second to none. After arriving in the United States, he and fellow Frenchman Paul Frenzeny were commissioned by Harper's Weekly to travel by rail from New York to San Francisco, producing illustrations of the rapidly changing American frontier along the way. The images were dramatic - American Indian customs, the emerging cattle trade, the decimation of native wildlife - and had rarely been seen by a popular audience. These scenes established Tavernier's reputation as a bold and daring painter and influenced the work of subsequent artists. Tavernier's reputation continued to grow in California, where he flourished in the budding social scene. He became a member of San Francisco's newly established Bohemian Club, hosting elaborate parties and taking part in celebratory outdoor revels, and his studio in Monterey became a hub of the peninsula's developing art colony. The strange grandeur of the Monterey coastline appealed to Tavernier's imagination, and it was during this period that he produced some of the most audacious work of his career, featuring a host of mysterious themes and images. Always on a quest for new and "untouched" subject matter (and weighed down by significant debts), Tavernier moved on to Hawaii, where he was fascinated by the island's dramatic scenery. "There is material here for a lifetime," he wrote to a friend, and, indeed, it was in this preindustrial paradise, with its lush greenery and churning beds of lava, that the artist's turbulent and creative life seemed to find its perfect visual embodiment. Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same title, is the first publication to focus on Jules Tavernier and his full range of work. With more than 120 artworks and photographs, it explores the life and work of this extraordinary artist.
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