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Railway Imperialism (Hardcover, New)
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Railway Imperialism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
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This contributed volume explores the relationship between
imperialism, railways, and informal empire. Contributors account
for the origins of main lines in several independent and
self-governing countries. The essays reflect on the imperial and
anti-imperial effects of railways, whose rails traced the divergent
paths of expanding capitalism, imperial strategy, and modernizing
nationalism. The reader is thereby offered an opportunity of seeing
the slippery notion of informal empire in operation, and of testing
its validity. The railway has often been studied from the
standpoint of imperialism; this book makes a beginning with
studying imperialism from the standpoint of the railway. Following
the book's introduction, which explains the imperial model
considered in each chapter case study, the book opens with essays
on railway imperialism in Canada, South Africa, Central Africa,
Argentina, Mexico, the Indian States, Thailand, Russia and China.
The last essay, written by Ronald E. Robinson, ties the book
together with an engaging analysis of railway imperialism. This
book should appeal to researchers and students interested in the
history of imperialism and the history of railways.
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