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Tracks across continents, paths through history : the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge / Douglas J. Puffert.

Puffert, Douglas J.
2009
TF244 .P84 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Tracks across continents, paths through history : the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge / Douglas J. Puffert.
Author
Puffert, Douglas J.
ISBN
9780226685090 (alk. paper)
0226685098 (alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
TF244 .P84 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
385.3/120218
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-343) and index.
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Overview
Technology and other systematic elements in the selection of gauge
Britain and Ireland
The development of diversity in North America, 1830 to 1865
The resolution of diversity in North America, 1866 and after
Continental Europe
India and Australia
The wider world
The selection of track gauge as a path-dependent economic process
Variations and extensions of the model
The dynamics of track gauge standardization.

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