Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990

Colin Divall

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Historians of transport and communications have long faced difficulties in defining what distinguishes their field from major branches of historical inquiry such as economic and business history. Writing in the early 1990s, the British scholar Michael Robbins argued that a thorough knowledge of transport technologies and techniques was the defining feature: without this, historians ran the risk of drawing nonsensical conclusions from their studies.

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