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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
The problem proposed by the editor of the Quarterly to the members of this symposium is to consider the varying patterns of railway development in three Far Eastern countries. It is a particularly challenging problem because the influential role which railroads have played in Western economic growth leads one naturally to ask whether Western experience has been repeated in the East, and, if not, how the differences may be explained. This question does, indeed, seem to have been the central one raised by the three following articles.
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2 This section owes some debt to an excellent article by Jenks, Leland H., “Railroads as an Economic Force in American Development,” Journal of Economic History, 4 (1944), 1–20Google Scholar. (Reprinted in Lane, F. C. and Riesmersma, J. C., Editors, Enterprise and Secular Change, Homewood, Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1953, 161–80.)Google Scholar
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4 For example, Clapham, J. H., An Economic History of Modern Britain, Vol. I and II.Google Scholar
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