UID:
almahu_9947414143302882
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 351 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511497124 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in economic history. Second series
Content:
This 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, gas and water supply, tramways, coal, oil and natural gas industries, telegraph, telephone, computer networks and other modern telecommunications. The book begins with the arrival of the railways in the 1830s, charts the development of arms' length regulation, municipalisation and nationalisation, and ends on the eve of privatisation in the 1980s. Robert Millward argues that the role of ideology, especially in the form of debates about socialism and capitalism, has been exaggerated. Instead the driving forces in changes in economic organisation were economic and technological factors and the book traces their influence in shaping the pattern of regulation and ownership of these key sectors of modern economies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Map : the European economy in 1914 --
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Introduction --
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Ideology, technology and economic policy --
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The construction of the new European infrastructure c. 1830-1914 --
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Infrastructure development and rights of way in the early nineteenth century --
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Local supply networks, private concessions and municipalisation --
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Railways and telegraph : economic growth and national unification --
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Electricity supply, tramways and new regulatory regimes c. 1870-1914 --
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Nations and networks c. 1914-1945 --
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Infrastructure development from the nineteenth to the twentieth century : an overall perspective --
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The development of telecommunications.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521835244
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
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History
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Economics
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497124
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