Railways in the First World War, Volume 1

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-72067-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

This book, the first in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.

Although World War I (1914–1918) has been studied extensively from virtually every angle, the question of the railways has not been the subject of robust historical interest, despite their crucial role in every respect and at every stage. The war forced the railways to adopt more efficient techniques more quickly than they would have done in peacetime, to the extent where military operations would not have been possible without their massive and multifaceted help. This collection of essays brings together specialists in the field from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds to demonstrate how this topic is integral to understanding the developments of European and world history throughout the 1910s and 1920s.

Railways in the First World War will be a useful tool for students, scholars and non-specialist readers interested in the history of transport, the history of the First World War and World history.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giuntini, Andrea

Jacolin, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The First World War and the Railways – A Subject to Be Rediscovered  Part 1: The Centrality of Railways During World War One  2. Railways in the First World War: Introduction to the Subject 3. Transnationalism, Railways and World War One  Part 2: Before the War  4. On the Way to War: The Role of German Railways in Military Strategic Planning, 1830 to 1914 5. Readiness, Planning, and Logistics in Germany’s July Crisis: Preparing for War? 6 War and Military Mobility in 1914: Russia’s General Mobilisation in Logistical Perspective 7. Railway Construction and Planning in Russia: An Imperial Perspective in Peace and War (1900–1917)  Part 3: Railway Networks During the War in Western Europe  8. Britain’s Railway Experts and the Perception of Industrial Warfare: Understanding the Evolution of the Western Front 9. The French Railways During the First World War: An Essay 10. Between Hammer and Anvil: Railways in the Netherlands, 1914–1918 11 The Role of Belgian State Railways from August to December 1914 12. Railways and Military Mobilization in Italy (1915–1918) 13. Regulating in Wartime: An Impossible Mission — Railways in Spain (1913–1919)  Part 4: Railway Networks During the War in Central and Eastern Europe  14. German and Russian Railway Networks in World War I 15. Eisenbahnfeldzug: Railway War in East Central Europe 16. Two Special Operations of the Hungarian State Railways During the Great War 17. Logistics in the Hinterland of War: Railway Transport in Hungary (1914–1915) 18. Beyond the Front: The Ryazan-Uralsk Railway During World War I 19. Transportation in World War I: Sirkeci Station

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Giuntini teaches Economic History at the Marco Biagi Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). His publications include La Grande Guerra e le ferrovie in Italia (2017). He is president of the International Railway History Association.

Henry Jacolin has served as a French diplomat throughout the world and was ambassador in Bosnia-Hercegovina between 1993 and 1995 during the war. His publications include L'ambassadeur et le siège: Sarajevo 1993-95 (2018) and many journal articles about railways in Eastern Europe. He was president of the International Railway History Association from 2008 to 2019.