The North Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1914
Author: Robert James Irving
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 328
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The Origins of Railway Enterprise
Author: Maurice W. Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-04
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521892803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues for the significance of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in Britain's industrialisation.
The Transport Revolution 1770-1985
Author: Dr Philip Bagwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1988-09-15
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 1134985010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated version of this classic book which includes an examination of transport developments since 1974, and particularly those of the Thatcher era.
The Dynamics of Victorian Business
Author: Roy Church
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1136596305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2005. This volume looks at the problems and perspectives of Victorian Business in the 1870s.The purpose of this collection of essays is to explore further that part of the thesis, tentatively advanced in interrogative mode in 1975, concerning the course of industrial development during the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century.
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Author: United States. Department of Transportation
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Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939
Author: Christopher J. Schmitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780521557719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first available introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before WW2. The book discusses the evolution of firms like Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens.
County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis
Author: Sam Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 1351948040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 County Boroughs of England and Wales between 1919 and 1938. They also provide an extensive and detailed analysis of municipal politics in the same period, both in terms of the individual boroughs and of aggregate patterns of political behaviour. Being annual, these local election results give the clearest and most authoritative record of how political opinion changed between general elections, especially useful for research into the longer gaps such as 1924-29 and 1935-45, or crisis periods such as 1929-31. They also illuminate the impact of fringe parties such as the Communist Party and the British Union of Fascists, and also such questions as the role of women in politics, the significance of religious and ethnic differentiation and the connection between occupational and class divisions and party allegiance. Analysis at the ward level is particularly useful for socio-spatial studies. A major work of reference, County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938 is indispensable for university libraries and local and national record offices. Each volume has approximately 700 pages.
From Rail to Road and Back Again?
Author: Colin Divall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1317131851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: David Turnock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1351958933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
Men, Women, and Money
Author: David R. Green
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0191618195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed significant developments in the structure, organization, and expansion of financial markets and opportunities for investment in Britain and its empire. But very little is known about how men and women engaged with these markets and with new opportunities for money-making. In what ways did the composition of personal fortunes alter in response to these developments? How did individuals make use of new financial opportunities to further their own priorities and ensure their families' well-being? What choices of securities did they make, and how did these reflect their attitudes to investment risk? What were the implications of a rapidly growing investor population for corporate governance and the regulation of markets? How significant is gender in understanding new patterns of wealth holding and investment? This interdisciplinary book brings together a range of leading international scholars to answer these questions and to develop important new research agendas. Foremost among these is a concern for gender, with several of the chapters exploring the growing importance of women within investment markets. These findings open up dialogues between economic and financial historians with social, gender, and feminist historians, and add a significant new dimension to existing research on women's economic agency. The volume also breaks fresh ground by analysing aspects of wealth holding and finance in British colonial settings: Canada and Australia. Understanding the extent to which global financial processes shaped the economic lives of those on the 'periphery' as well as at the 'heart' of empire will offer new insights into the social and geographical diffusion of financial markets.
