The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The growth of the new Empire, l783-1870Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians The University Press, 1940 - Great Britain |
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Page 746
... railway was in 1846 and an estimate of cost was prepared , but the project was swept away like so many others by the collapse of the great railway boom in England in 1847-48 . The plan was revived by the planters and merchants of Ceylon ...
... railway was in 1846 and an estimate of cost was prepared , but the project was swept away like so many others by the collapse of the great railway boom in England in 1847-48 . The plan was revived by the planters and merchants of Ceylon ...
Page 790
... Railway . To a large extent the same people interested themselves in Indian Government stock and in the guaranteed railways . A con- siderable amount of the interest on Indian Government loans was straightway invested in Indian railway ...
... Railway . To a large extent the same people interested themselves in Indian Government stock and in the guaranteed railways . A con- siderable amount of the interest on Indian Government loans was straightway invested in Indian railway ...
Page 791
... railway costs ; but though in the early days railway constructors feared that their increased competition for freight would seriously raise the cost of railway construction , freight rates down to 1860 seem to have varied little year by ...
... railway costs ; but though in the early days railway constructors feared that their increased competition for freight would seriously raise the cost of railway construction , freight rates down to 1860 seem to have varied little year by ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The growth of the new Empire, l783-1870 Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians |
| Contributor | John Holland Rose |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1940 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2008 |
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