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The Swiss economic historian Tobias Straumann is the first historian publishing a monograph about the German banking crisis in English. Straumann impresses his readers with a multi-perspective panorama of the events before and during the climax of the banking crisis. Straumann's narrative and his explanations of the aggravating German payment crisis are convincing, well written and intelligible, but he touches the endogenous reasons for the vulnerability of German banks rather briefly. [Extracted from the article]

His long-term view on the evolution of mobility takes both the supply and the demand side of mobility into account and looks at the impact of political path decisions, economic transformation and societal changes. Like many historians, Sieber identifies the 1950s and 1960s as the boom decades of motorised traffic and the 1970s as a decade of uncertainty. Unlike many scholars, the Swiss historian Markus Sieber does not solely focus on motorised traffic and mass transit. [Extracted from the article]