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Investment in Empire : British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825-1849 /

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 th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thorner, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edición:Reprint 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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