The book draws on manuscript and archival sources, primary source newspapers and books, and primary source Parliamentary papers to examine the financial history of the Indian railway network created b
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment
Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attention, the focus has tended to be largely on the Britis
