'Financing the Bagdadbahn. Barings, the City and the Foreign Office, 1902-03' in A K B Evans & J V Gough (eds), The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain. Essays in honour of Jack Simmons
Details:
- Author(s) Cottrell, P L
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2003
- Pages pp77-98
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Diplomatic issues inc imperialism
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the construction and financing of the Baghdad Railway as an instrument of diplomatic power and the role in it of City of London interests, notably Barings and Morgan Grenfell, and their connection with the British government. Has sections: 'Interrelations between the British state and the City'; 'Extending the Anatolian Railway'; 'Lansdowne and Revelstoke - foreign policy and financial power'; 'The background to the Anglo German financial alliance'; 'Progress of the Anglo German compact'; 'Reasons for British withdrawal'; 'The retreat of British capital'