papers

LIST OF PAPERS
(summaries, and papers/slides) 

(31.August.2011)

Inequality in Landownership in the American Midwest, 1850-60: The Role of the Railroad

Jeremy Atack (Vanderbilt University) and Robert A. Margo (Boston University) (USA)

The building of the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline in western India in the mid-19th century

Ian Kerr, University of Manitoba (Canada)

Development of an historical GIS of railroads in the North East USA 1826-1900

Richard Healey and Michael Jones, University of Portsmouth (UK)

Two case studies in Heritage and Valorization of Ancient Mountain Railways in France

Michel Cotte, University of Nantes (France) 

 Railway Heritage: Between Using, Reusing and Preserving. A case in Áustria

Guenter Dinholb, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG, Austria

Railways in Trás-os-Montes during the second half of the XIXth century: projects and achievements

Hugo Pereira, University of Porto (Portugal)

Railways in Portugal and Spain: corporate and public policies

Luis Santos, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain)

Foreign investment and managerial control in railway ventures. Lessons from Portuguese railway construction

Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics, U. Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

 The man behind Tua railway: the chief engineer Dinis da Mota

José Manuel Cordeiro, Department of History, U. Minho (Portugal)

What prospects for the “interior of the interior” in a peripheral region? The FOZTUA project vision

Eduardo Beira, School of Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal)