Europe's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature

by Per Högselius, Foundation for the History of Technology, Arne Kaijser, et al.

Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products, credit, and unprecedented wealth; others mobilized infrastructure capacities for waging war on scales hitherto unknown. Europe's natural world was fundamentally transformed; its landscapes, waterscapes, and airscapes turned into infrastructure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230308007
• ISBN13: 9780230308008
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.7"