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Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
Douglas J. Puffert
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Description for Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
Hardcover. A standard track gauge - the distance between the two rails - enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. This book offers a global history of railway track gauges, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Num Pages: 320 pages, 21 line drawings, 14 tables. BIC Classification: KNGT; TRF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
A standard track gauge - the distance between the two rails - enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauges at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In "Tracks across Continents, Paths through History", Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauges, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, ... Read more
A standard track gauge - the distance between the two rails - enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauges at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In "Tracks across Continents, Paths through History", Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauges, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226685090
SKU
V9780226685090
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About Douglas J. Puffert
Douglas J. Puffert teaches economics at the King's College, New York.
Reviews for Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
"An excellent accomplishment. Douglas Puffert has analyzed exhaustively the evolution of the various diverse railway track gauges since the emergence of 'modern' steam locomotives and wrought iron rails in the 1820s. No other book has attempted to compile, use, and interpret such a variety of historical information on gauges and employ this kind of economic theory and modeling to explain ... Read more