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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: Railroads and the Transformation of China
Author: Elisabeth KöllPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674916425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Rail planning manual
Author: United States. Federal Railroad AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Interstate Commerce Act
Author: United StatesPublisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Passed in the Session of ...
Author: AustraliaPublisher:
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Railways of America
Author: Thomas M. CooleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368267019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.
The Railway and Corporation Law Journal
Author: The Railway Age
Author: Multiple U. S. Agencies Provided Billions of Dollars to Train and Equip Foreign Police Forces
Author: Joseph A. ChristoffPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437985157
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Over the past few years, the U.S. has increased its emphasis on training and equipping foreign police as a means of supporting a wide range of U.S. foreign-policy goals, including countering terrorists overseas and stopping the flow of narcotics to the U.S. Funding for these activities has increased significantly since a report on these issues in 1992. This report provides estimates of the funding the U.S. government provided for activities to train and equip foreign police during FY 2009. The report defines ¿police¿ as all law-enforcement units or personnel with arrest investigative, or interdiction authorities. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Times Law Reports
Author: William Frederick BarryPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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