BRITISH INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN RAILWAYS 1834-1898 by Adler & Hidy, 1970, 253 Pg. for Sale

BRITISH INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN RAILWAYS 1834-1898 by Adler & Hidy, 1970, 253 Pg. For Sale

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BRITISH INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN RAILWAYS 1834-1898 by Adler & Hidy, 1970, 253 Pg.:
$21.00

\"British Investment in American Railways 1834 - 1898\" is by Dorothy R. Adler, edited by Muriel E. Hidy, and published by the University Press of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Eleutherian Mills Foundation which hold the 1970copyright. This copy was first published in 1970. The Preface states, \"The main objectives of this theses were to investigate the mechanisms of investment on one hand and the extent of active British participation on the other... The subject of British Investments in American railways unites two dominant themes of nineteenth-century economic history: the export of British capital and the development of railways in the United States.\" The illustrations in this book are a number of tables, no photos or drawings. The Appendix has nineteen pages of lists or tables. The pictures above show the actual front and back covers, the Contents page and the Table page. The book has a hard cover with no dust jacket, measures 7 by 10-1/4 by 1 inches and is 253 pages long. It was originally listed on for $31. Free USPS media-mail shipping and tracking in the U.S. is included. now collects sales tax for most states.
The book is from the library of the Inland Empire Railway Historical Society / Inland Northwest Rail Museum (InlandNWRailMuseum.com), a non-profit in Reardan, Washington, who will receive all proceeds from this sale.