Spatial History

Railways, Uneven Development, and Population Change in France and Great Britain, 1850-1914

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ID3399265
AutoresRebecca M Schwartz (0000-0002-4504-4766, Alstom (France)), Robert Schwartz (0000-0001-8199-565X, Robert Schwartz is E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of “Rail Transport, Agrarian Crisis, and the Restructuring of Agriculture: France and Great Britain Confront Globalization, 1860–1900,” Social Science History, XXXIV (2010), 229–255; “New Tools for Clio: GIS, Railways, and Change over Time and Space in France and Great Britain, 1840–1914,” digital publication (2007), at), Ian Gregory (0000-0001-8745-2242, Arcadis (Czechia)), Tine Thevenin (0000-0003-1114-7377, Prudential Financial (United States)), Thomas Thévenin (Thomas Thévenin is Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Burgundy, and researcher, ThéMA. He is the author of, with Schwartz and Gregory, “Railways and Agriculture in France and Great Britain, 1850 to 1914,” in Alistair Geddes and Gregory (eds.), Re-Thinking Space and Place: New Directions in Historical GIS (Bloomington, 2011); with Arnaud Banos, “Generation of Potential Fields and Route Simulation Based on the Household Travel Survey,” in Marius Theriault and François Des Rosiers (eds.))
Año2011
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas53-88
Fecha de publicación2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh_a_00205
OpenAlexW2155984739
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas31

A comparative spatial history combining historical narrative, geographical thinking, and spatial analysis of historical data offers new perspectives on railway expansion and its effects in France and Great Britain during the long nineteenth century. Accessible rail transport in the rural regions of both countries opened new economic opportunities in agriculture, extractive industries, and service trades, helping to revitalize rural communities and decrease their rates of out-migration. In France, long-standing economic disparities between the developed north and the less-productive south gradually reduced. These conclusions are based, in part, on the use of historical geographical information systems (hgis) and spatial statistics, illustrating a component of spatial history

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