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Typescript / M.A. Florida State College for Women 1929

Although historians have usually acknowledged the importance of the railways for economic growth in England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, little research has been specifically devoted to this subject. Historians have investigated other aspects of railways, and writers whose interests centred on railways rather than on economic or historical development, have provided a large literature on technical matters and on inter-company rivalries. The economic impact of the railways has been relatively neglected. Until recently, the position was similar in the U.S.A. although historians or the economic development of that country had given the railways a more central role in the process of growth and generalised judgements about their impact were more common. Professors Fogel and Fishlow have however re-examined the role of the railways with a more modern economic approach and have advanced substantial revisions of the orthodox interpretation. Fogel, for example, has suggested that the U.S. economy in 1890 depended on the existence of railways to a much smaller extent than is generally supposed. This American work has important implications for the historical problem of to what extent economic growth in England and Wales in the nineteenth century depended on railways, and on the related and more general problem of to what extent economic growth depends on specific innovations.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1977. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : p. 86-90. / M.C.P. / B.S.

This study examines the ambitions and requirements of British financial, manufacturing and other business interests, of different territorial and economic sectors of the colonial settlement in the Cape, and of the men who laboured on the railway works, and analyzes the changing economic and political relationships between them, as manifested in the agitations and arguments leading to the decision to build railways when and where they were built and in the process of railway-building itself between 1870 and 1885. It is argued that this first, major export of British capital to South Africa after 1870, mostly for railway building <ul><li>(a) formed part of a wider shift in the direction of British capital investment towards parts of the Empire other than India;</li><li>(b) had important implications for the constitutional development of the Cape and its political relationship with Great Britain;</li><li>(c) enabled those colonial interests exercising power in the political system to determine the use made of British investments in Cape government securities, against the wishes of other colonists;</li><li>(d) conditioned the relationships between British and Afrikaner colonists in the Cape; and</li><li>(e) implied a new dimension to the demand for wage labour there.</li></ul> These developments and their implications are studied here in their inter-relation. The conclusions of the study are finally related to recent writing about the way in which Imperial economic and political interests were promoted through the collaboration of white colonial settlers.

Leung, Yan Cheong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-159). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter ■ --- Research Objectives --- p.3 / Chapter ■ --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter ■ --- Use of Primary Sources --- p.9 / Chapter ■ --- Structure --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Governing Objectives behind the Railway Developments --- p.13 / Chapter ■ --- Initial Motives --- p.13 / Chapter ■ --- Political Objectives and Financial Concerns as the Determinative Factors --- p.22 / Chapter ■ --- Railway Developments since the 1970s --- p.33 / Chapter ■ --- Changing Meanings of Success in Railway Development --- p.35 / Chapter ■ --- Summary of Chapter 2 --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Hong Kong-London Relations and the MTR Development (I): Bilateral Negotiation and the Decisions on the MTR --- p.37 / Chapter ■ --- Nature of London-Hong Kong Relations after the WWII --- p.37 / Chapter ■ --- The Contract Approaches --- p.40 / Chapter ■ --- The Process of Bilateral Negotiation --- p.42 / Chapter ■ --- Hong Kong Government´ةs Strategy --- p.43 / Chapter ■ --- London´ةs Strategy --- p.46 / Chapter ■ --- Summary of Chapter 3 --- p.53 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Hong Kong-London Relations and the MTR Development (II): Negotiation Breakdown and Its Impacts --- p.55 / Chapter ■ --- The Negotiation Breakdown --- p.55 / Chapter ■ --- The Adoption of Multi-contract Approach: a Contingency Plan --- p.59 / Chapter ■ --- Collaborate with London --- p.64 / Chapter ■ --- Summary of Chapter 4 --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Colonial Governance and Major Decisions on the MTR in the 1970s --- p.70 / Chapter ■ --- The Establishment of MTRC --- p.70 / Chapter ■ --- Optimizing the Project --- p.75 / Chapter ■ --- Civil Protests and Crises Management --- p.83 / Chapter ■ --- Summary of Chapter 5 --- p.91 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- A Review on the Modernization of Kowloon-Canton Railway --- p.93 / Chapter ■ --- KCR´ةs Operational Problems before the Modernization --- p.93 / Chapter ■ --- Evolution of KCR Modernization Programme --- p.100 / Chapter ■ --- Bureaucratic and Administrative Concerns behind the Establishment of KCRC --- p.108 / Chapter ■ --- KCRC´ةs Service Provision and Corporate Strategy --- p.111 / Chapter ■ --- Summary of Chapter 6 --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- "Railway Development, Transport Policy and the Competitions among Public transport Operators" --- p.118 / Chapter ■ --- Transformation of the Transport Industry in the 1970s --- p.118 / Chapter ■ --- The Changing Role of Railways in the Transport System --- p.121 / Chapter ■ --- Rivalries between the Railways and Other Transport Operators --- p.129 / Chapter ■ --- Summary of Chapter 7 --- p.138 / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Conclusion --- p.140 / Chapter ■ --- Hong Kong-London Relations and Decisions on Railway Developments --- p.141 / Chapter ■ --- Governing Concerns and the Railway Development --- p.144 / Chapter ■ --- Further Studies --- p.148 / Bibliography --- p.150