A History of Inland Transport and Communication

ISBN-10: 1000363449
ISBN-13: 9781000363449
Category: Transportation
Pages: 550
Language: English
Published: 2021-05-12
Publisher: Routledge
Author: Edwin A. Pratt

Description

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles. The role that the development of transport played in the growth and expansion of trade and industry and on the general economic and social conditions of the country is one of the main issues that is discussed. Other themes which are examined are the electrification of the railways, railways and the state, railway rates and charges and early trading conditions.

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