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Investment in Empire
British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825-1849
Daniel Thorner
216 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Cloth 1950 | ISBN 9781512820058 | Buy from De Gruyter $79.95 | €69.95 | £70.50
Ebook 2017 | ISBN 9781512819038 | Buy from De Gruyter $79.95 | €69.95 | £70.50
This book is available under special arrangement from our European publishing partner De Gruyter.
An Anniversary Collection volume
The subject of this work is the process by which steamship and railway lines for India were launched. These undertakings, particularly the railways, involved a large-scale investment of British capital in India. The terms under which this capital moved, and, more precisely, the struggle to secure these terms, form the heart of this study.
Daniel Thorner taught economic history in the Economics Department and in the South Asia Regional Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
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