Private and public enterprise in Europe : energy, telecommunications and transport, 1830-1990 / Robert Millward.
This is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe.
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
Summary: | This is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe. "This is the first comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways; electricity, gas and water supply; tramways; coal, oil and natural gas industries; telegraph, telephone, computer networks and other modern telecommunications."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Physical Description: | xix, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-343) and index. |
ISBN: | 0521835240 9780521835244 |