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Railway imperialism

Author: Clarence B Davis; Kenneth E Wilburn; Ronald Edward Robinson
Publisher: New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
Series: Contributions in comparative colonial studies, no. 26
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Clarence B Davis; Kenneth E Wilburn; Ronald Edward Robinson
ISBN: 0313259666 9780313259661
OCLC Number: 20596104
Notes: Presented at a conference at East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C., Nov. 5, 1988.
Description: xix, 225 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Railway imperialism / Ronald E. Robinson -- Railway imperialism in Canada, 1847-1865 / Donald W. Roman -- Engines of empire and independence : railways in South Africa, 1863-1916 / Kenneth E. Wilburn, Jr. -- Railway politics and imperialism in Central Africa, 1889-1953 / W. Travis Hanes III -- Profits and visions : British capital and railway construction in Argentina, 1854-1886 / William J. Fleming -- In the path of progress : railroads and moral reform in Porfirian Mexico / William E. French -- Railways, Raj, and the Indian states : policy of collaboration and coercion in Hyderabad / Tara Sethia -- Thailand's railways and informal imperialism / David F. Holm -- Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Chinese Eastern Railway / R. Edward Glatfelter -- Railway imperialism in China, 1895-1939 / Clarence B. Davis -- Railways and informal empire / Ronald E. Robinson.
Series Title: Contributions in comparative colonial studies, no. 26
Responsibility: edited by Clarence B. Davis and Kenneth E. Wilburn, Jr., with Ronald E. Robinson.

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