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 themselves. Europe's Infrastructure
Transition reframes the conflicted story of modern European history by
taking material networks as its point of departure. It traces the
priorities set and the choices made in constructing transnational
infrastructure connections - within and beyond the continent. Moreover,
this study introduces an alternative set of historically-key
individuals, organizations, and companies in the making of modern Europe
and analyzes roads both taken and ignored.