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SHOT 2015 Annual Meeting

SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

8-11 October 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION, LABOR REGIMES AND COMMERCE

IN THE PORTUGUESE AND COLONIAL FRONTIER ZONES

PANNEL 43

About this pannel: purposal document (pdf)

Anne McCants, MIT (USA)

1. Transport technology and economic change in the "frontier" of Tras os Montes, Portugal

E. Beira and Anne McCants

slides (E. Beira), slides (Anne McCants)

2. Building railways in the portuguese colonies of Africa and India: the Mormugão and Ambaca railways

Bruno Navarro and Hugo Silveira

slides

3. Building the infrastructures od the empire: labor, labor processes and technology transfer in large scale projects in Britains's Asian and African colonies, c. 185 - c. 1920

Ian Kerry

slides, paper

4. Final comments

Ellan Spero

paper

Photo of the Balloon Festival by Ian Kerry

Ellan Spero