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Railways and international politics [electronic resource] : paths of empire, 1848-1945 / edited by T.G. Otte and Keith Neilson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Military history and policy ; 24.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Description: x, 243 pISBN:
  • 9780203350232 (e-book : PDF)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. 'Railpolitik' : an introduction / Keith Neilson and T.G. Otte -- 2. Railroads, the Prussian army, and the German way of war in the nineteenth century / Dennis E. Showalter -- 3. 'The most catastrophic question' : railway development and military strategy in late imperial Russia / Anthony J. Heywood -- 4. The Sanjak of Novibazar Railway project / F.R. Bridge -- 5. The railway-oceanic era, the India-China and India-Singapore railway schemes, and Siam / Nigel Brailey -- 6. 'The Baghdad railway of the Far East' : the Tientsin-Yangtze railway and Anglo-German relations, 1898-1911 / T.G. Otte -- 7. Lord Curzon and British strategic railways in Central Asia before, during and after the First World War / John Fisher -- 8. The Baghdad to Haifa railway : the culmination of railway planning for Imperial defence east of Suez / Keith Neilson -- 9. Managing the hajj : Indian pilgrim traffic, public health and transportation in Arabia, 1918-1930 / Martin Thomas -- 10. Barometer of war : British views of imperial security in the far east, Russo-Japanese relations and the Chinese Eastern railway, 1929-1935 / Greg Kennedy -- 11. Swiss trans-Alpine railway lines : strategic railways and the strategy of deterrence / Neville Wylie.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 'Railpolitik' : an introduction / Keith Neilson and T.G. Otte -- 2. Railroads, the Prussian army, and the German way of war in the nineteenth century / Dennis E. Showalter -- 3. 'The most catastrophic question' : railway development and military strategy in late imperial Russia / Anthony J. Heywood -- 4. The Sanjak of Novibazar Railway project / F.R. Bridge -- 5. The railway-oceanic era, the India-China and India-Singapore railway schemes, and Siam / Nigel Brailey -- 6. 'The Baghdad railway of the Far East' : the Tientsin-Yangtze railway and Anglo-German relations, 1898-1911 / T.G. Otte -- 7. Lord Curzon and British strategic railways in Central Asia before, during and after the First World War / John Fisher -- 8. The Baghdad to Haifa railway : the culmination of railway planning for Imperial defence east of Suez / Keith Neilson -- 9. Managing the hajj : Indian pilgrim traffic, public health and transportation in Arabia, 1918-1930 / Martin Thomas -- 10. Barometer of war : British views of imperial security in the far east, Russo-Japanese relations and the Chinese Eastern railway, 1929-1935 / Greg Kennedy -- 11. Swiss trans-Alpine railway lines : strategic railways and the strategy of deterrence / Neville Wylie.

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