British Investment in American Railways, 1834-1898

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  • Name International investment
  • Name Capital and money markets, etc

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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'