On the Fast Track: French Railway Modernization and the Origins of the TGV, 1944-1983

by Jacob Meunier

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973778
• ISBN13: 9780275973773
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"