British Investment in American Railways, 1834-1898
Details:
- Author(s) Adler, Dorothy R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1970
- Pages 253pp
- Publisher University Press of Virginia
- Place Published Charlottesville VA
Topics:
- Name International investment
- Name Capital and money markets, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
See the writer's doctoral thesis 'British Investment in American Railways, 1834-1898', Cambridge, 1959. Published posthumously. Has chapters: 'The early years'; 'American railways and British rails' [ie production of rails in Britain and their export to the USA]; 'Negotiation of American railway securities in the City in the 1850s'; 'The 1860s and 1870s'; 'The Erie and the Atlantic and Great Western'; 'The attraction of coal and iron'; 'The organisation of the market for American securities in London, 1879-1898'; 'Protection of British investment'