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.

Railroads--United States--History--19th century.

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