The Influence of Railways on Economic Change

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Routledge
23 December 2025

Economic history; History of science; Railway technology, engineering & trades

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

This book approaches the history of railway building and its impact on economic change in a new way. Using a more granular approach than has been used in the past, based on detailed case studies, this book aims to establish the effect of railway building on local economies and individual sectors within those micro-economies. From the resulting analysis, it has been possible to extrapolate the nuanced changes, not always growth as has often been suggested, to other places.

While this book examines the micro-economies of one deliberately selected constrained area, the conclusions drawn from the research are relevant to the whole of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century. The findings are also relevant to other evolving economies, including those in Europe and the United States, throughout the nineteenth century.

The volume is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars who are examining the economic and social history of the Victorian period. It would also be of value to business schools. This book has also been written to be an accessible history of nineteenth-century economic history, which will be of general interest to book sellers, librarians and the casual reader.

By: Richard Marks
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 930g
ISBN: 9781041073086
ISBN 10: 1041073089
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 23 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Richard Marks is an experienced published historian and is a departmental tutor in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. His areas of research interest include Victorian Britain, railway and military history. Richard recently completed a new History of British Rail Engineering Limited (2024).

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