Transport Revolution, 1770-1985
Details:
- Author(s) Bagwell, Philip S
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 2nd ed; 493pp; illus
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Government & business & industry policy
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
First published 1974. Scholarly account. Mostly deals with individual modes - inland navigation; road transport before railways; coastal shipping; establishment of railways; their economic and social effects; 'Government and the railways, 1830-1914'; development of motor transport, 1885-1939; 'British transport policy, 1914-38'; 'British transport developments, 1939-79'. See also T C Barker, 'Transport revolution from 1770. Retrospective' in C Wrigley & J Shepherd (eds), On the Move. Essays in labour and transport history presented to Philip Bagwell, 1991