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War Economies in a Regional Context

Challenges of Transformation

By: Michael Charles Pugh,Neil Cooper,Jonathan Goodhand

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War Economies in a Regional Context

Challenges of Transformation

By: Michael Charles Pugh,Neil Cooper,Jonathan Goodhand

This book ... emphasizes the role of economic factors in the conditions that lead to state collapse, give rise to and sustain conflict, and complicate peacebuilding." The book argues that "existing state-level focus tends to ignore the role of regional linkages in permitting and sustaining conflict and as obstacles to transformation." Furthermore that, "the focus on the dynamics of conflict in states of the developing world tends to artificially distance the outside, predominantly "Western" world from their genesis and evolution ..." (taken from introduction)

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1588262111

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9781588262110

European Security

Towards 2000

By: Michael Charles Pugh

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European Security

Towards 2000

By: Michael Charles Pugh

This work covers the period from the end of the Cold War to the end of the century, and specifically addresses the roles of the United States and the Soviet Union, European Community security police, Germany's role as bridge or frontier between East and West and transnational processes.

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216

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Manchester University Press

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0719035775

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9780719035777

Branch Line Empires

The Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads

By: Michael Bezilla,Luther Gette

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Branch Line Empires

The Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads

By: Michael Bezilla,Luther Gette

The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. Includes photographs

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Indiana University Press

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0253029910

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9780253029911

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War Economies in a Regional Context

War Economies in a Regional Context

European Security

European Security

Branch Line Empires

Branch Line Empires

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