Railways and International Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Paths of Empire, 1848-1945
Redaktion: Otte, T. G.; Neilson, Keith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new collection focuses on its international political and strategic dimensions from the 1860s to the 1930s. It examines them as objects of the Great Powers' political and economic rivalries and as tools of power projection, strategic mobilization and imperial defence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134271351
• Artikelnr.: 38248160

Autorenporträt

Otte, T.G.; Neilson, Keith

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Railpolitik': An Introduction 2. Railroads, the Prussian Army, and the
German Way of War in the Nineteenth Century 3. 'The Most Catastrophic
Question': Railway Development and Military Strategy in Late Imperial
Russia 4. The Sanjak of Novibazar Railway Project 5. The Railway-Oceanic
Era, the India-China and India-Singapore Railway Schemes, and Siam 6. 'The
Baghdad Railway of the Far East': The Tientsin-Yangtze Railway and
Anglo-German Relations, 1898-1914 7. Lord Curzon and British Strategic
Railways in Central Asia Before, During and After World War I 8. The
Baghdad to Haifa Railway: The Culmination of Railway Planning for Imperial
Defence East of Suez 9. Managing the Hajj: Indian Pilgrim Traffic, Public
Health, and Transportation in Arabia, 1918-1930 10. Barometer of War:
British Views of Imperial Security in the Far East, Russo-Japanese
Relations and the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1929-1935 11. Swiss-Transalpine
Railway Lines: Strategic Railways and the Strategy of Deterrence