Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830-1940 : studies in economic and business history / Geoffrey Channon.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Channon, Geoffrey.

Series:

• Modern economic and social history series
• Modern economic and social history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Railroads--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Railroads--United States--History--19th century.
• Railroads.
• History.
• United States.
• Railroads--Great Britain--History--20th century.
• Railroads--United States--History--20th century.
• Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 341 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

• 1 Chandler's 'visible hand' and the railways: United States 1
• 2 The Chandler typology and British railways 22
• 3 Bristol capitalists and the promotion of the Great Western Railway 53
• 4 A major nineteenth-century investment decision: the Midland Railway's London Extension 81
• 5 Railway competition and pooling in Britain before 1900 110
• 6 Merger by the state: the Great Western Railway, 1921-1928 128
• 7 The recruitment of directors to the board of the Great Western Railway 159
• 8 The directors of the Great Western Railway: social origins and links with other enterprises 179
• 9 Railways and English landed society 194
• 10 The Pennsylvania Railroad's labour policies part one: 1846-1917 217
• 11 The Pennsylvania Railroad's labour policies part two: 1917-1933 238
• 12 The building of locomotives in the United States and Britain before 1900: to internalize or not? 262.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840142537

OCLC:

48109694