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Turnpike Trusts, Infrastructure Investment, and the Road Transportation Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

DAN BOGART
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine

Abstract

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Type
SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Copyright
© 2005 The Economic History Association

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Footnotes

This dissertation was completed under the direction of Jean-Laurent Rosenthal in the Department of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles.

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