Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns 1850–1990 History of Science Daniel Margocsy

Daniel Margocsy

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Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns 1850–1990 History of Science Daniel MargocsyAndersson Skog, Lena, and Olle Krantz, eds., 1999, 359pp., Illus. This book shows how the awareness of a broader institutional discourse helps both in rephrasing old themes and in discovering new issues in transport history. Economic historians, together with distinguished scholars from other disciplines, here present the fabric of a "modern" transport history in the light of the general theoretical influences . . . together with more traditional