Across the Borders

Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: GÃ¼nter Dinhobl, Ralf Roth (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 June 2008

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'Across the Borders' not only opens the door for fundamental new insights into a trans-national view of railway history, but also contributes to a break through in the wider study of the subject, providing the first extensive historical investigation of the world wide system of railway financing. Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economies. This book provides a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in Europe managed to face the challenges of constructing and maintaining an integrated railway network, both in their own countries and their colonies.Based on discussions at the 2002 International Railway History Association conference, this volume offers analysis from a selection of experts exploring the trans-national investment policies of railway construction based on numerous historical case-studies. The chapters provide insight into the international opportunities that exited for railway financing, from the perspective of economic, social, transport and railway history.With contributions from authors from 19 countries the volume is a truly international work that will be of interest to academic researchers, museum staff, archivists, and anyone who has an interest in the history and development of railways.

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'...the book, whose text is supplemented by over 500 footnotes, a twenty-page bibliography and a comprehensive index, will become an essential tool for investigating railway development outside Britain.' Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society 'This book will be of interest to researchers of banking history as well as to economic and railway historians.' Bankhistorisches Archiv

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Preface
Introduction: across the borders
Individual Across-Border Investors
Making tracks: promoting the Rothschild Archive as a source of railway history
The Pereires' international strategy for railway construction in the 1850s and 1860s
Raffaele de Ferrari, Duke of Galliera, an investor of European stature
Difficulties of international railway investments in Germany: the example of the 'railway king' Bethel Henry Strousberg, 1855-1875
Leon Sapieha - a prince and a railway entrepreneur
Economic investors and railway advertising: the influence of photography in the railway in modern French and Spanish painting in the second half of the 19th century
Cross-Border Investments in Europe
Spanish society of secondary railways: the failure of a major international project to create an additional railway network in Spain
British and French investments in the Belgian railway sector during the 19th century
Railway investments in Italy during the 19th century
The French investors in Portuguese railways from 1855 to 1884: 3 cases
The Dutch as investors in railways at home and abroad
From Europe into the World
Oversea Investments
European investment in American railways
European investments in the Ottoman railways, 1850-1914
Sustained British investment in overseas railways, 1830-1914: the imperial dream, engineers' assurances or an 'investment hungry public'?
John Chapman and the promotion of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 1842-1850
French finance and railway construction in Northern China, 1895-1905
The establishment of railways in the 19th-century Brazil and the role of the Rothschilds
The transandine railway: a 100 year long financial disaster that still attracts investors
Bibliography
Index
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Across the Borders

Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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