Recently added articles from The Journal of Transport History:
The King's Highway to Lancaster: A graph-theory analysis of colonial Pennsylvania's road network
Mar 01, 2007; Marr, Paul ... The decade of the 1760s marked a turning point in colonial Pennsylvania's history. The ending of hostilities of the French and Indian War (1754- 63) allowed Pennsylvania's pent-up energy for westward expansion to finally be released. The roads projected west by colonial troops were used by ...
'Diplomatic forces of the new railroad': Transcontinental terminus entry at Vancouver and Seattle
Mar 01, 2007; Leonard, Frank ... In a review of academic studies of the American railroad, historian Maury Klein laments that 'no one has . . . compared the organisational structures of several major roads or tried to correlate those structures with geographical regions or other factors.'1 This article responds to Klein's ...
Against the odds: The origins and survival of a small British railway port, 1850-1939
Mar 01, 2007; Todd, Daniel ... On the face of it, small ports are uncomplicated pieces of transport infrastructure, presenting the historian with few problems when it comes to establishing their origins and tracing their development. In practice, matters are not so straightforward, as the briefest glance at port typology ...
Managing decline: The political economy of British shipping in the 1930s
Mar 01, 2007; Greaves, Julian ... For the global shipping industry the inter-war years proved to be among the most challenging of the twentieth century. Significant shifts occurred in the commodity make-up of international trade. For example, the growth of oil shipments required more tanker vessels. Technological developments ...
A gentlemen's club in the clouds: Reassessing the Empire Air Mail Scheme, 1933-1939
Mar 01, 2007; Ewer, Peter ... In the 1930s, Britain mounted a bold initiative to seize the advantage in international civil aviation. Known as the Empire Air Mail Scheme (EAMS), the importance of this project cannot be overestimated. At the time, aviation was a key means by which nations staked a claim to power and prestige ...
Between industry and tourism: The Turin-Savona motorway, 1956-2001
Mar 01, 2007; Moraglio, Massimo ... Due to the extent of the destruction suffered, immediate post-war Italy found itself with a considerably damaged railway system and an increasing volume of road traffic.1 The war had accelerated the changes in 'modal split', and, for the first time, in 1949 the reported levels of commercial and ...
CAR RACING AND MOBILITY HISTORY: British automobiles and the Bonneville Salt Flats
Mar 01, 2007; Shook, Ron; Embry, Jessie ... Studying car racing history is an important but neglected aspect of mobility history. Whereas car enthusiasts publish trade and popular books about the vehicles and the races, academicians rarely study racing.1 Yet the emergence of the automobile cannot be fully understood without its early ...
History, special interest magazines, and the world's fastest Indian
Mar 01, 2007; Thompson, Steven L ... In December 2005 The World's Fastest Indian, a film directed by New Zealander Roger Donaldson about fellow New Zealander Herbert James 'Burt' Munro (1899-1978) was released. The film depicted how the sixtyeight- year-old Munro set the world speed record with his much modified 1920 Indian Scout ...
Common ground: Linking transport and tourism history
Mar 01, 2007; Baranowski, Shelley ... Although tourism as a legitimate subject of investigation has until recently faced resistance among historians, the seriousness with which historians now approach the topic testifies to two complementary trends: the relative decline of social history, which dominated in the 1960s and 1970s, and ...
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue suisse d'histoire/Rivista storica svizzera
Mar 01, 2007; Mom, Gijs ... Review article Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/ Revue suisse d'histoire/Rivista storica svizzera 56, 1 (2006), special issue Verkehrsgeschichte (History of mobility), [euro]120.00 (subscription p.a. for four issues). Switzerland is rapidly becoming one of the gravity centres of ...
SS Great Britain
Mar 01, 2007; Divall, Colin ... SS Great Britain Great Western Dock, Gas Ferry Road, Bristol BS1 6TY, United Kingdom Phone +44 (0) 117 926 0680 Web site www.ssgreatbritain.org/ The English port and city of Bristol, situated some 120 miles (190 km) due west of London, played a major role ...
The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400-1800
Mar 01, 2007; Epstein, Stephan ... David Harrison, The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400- 1800, Clarendon Press, Oxford (2004), 270 pp., £58.00. Economic historians of medieval and early modern Europe can be divided into lumpers and splitters. Lumpers emphasise continuity and the critical ...
Train Tracks: Work, Play and Politics on the Railway
Mar 01, 2007; Carter, Ian ... Gayle Letherby and Gillian Reynolds, Train Tracks: Work, Play and Politics on the Railway, Berg, Oxford, (2005), 214 pp. £16.99. Here we have a good book struggling to escape from a largely unsuitable integument. That the authors are two feminist sociologists who declare themselves ...
Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives
Mar 01, 2007; Whitelegg, John ... Kieran P. Donaghy, Stefan Poppelreuter and Georg Rudinger (eds), Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives, Ashgate, Aldershot (2005), 208 pp., £50.00. This is a very timely book. The title and the subject matter chime very well indeed with the growing ...
Storia dei trasporti in Italia
Mar 01, 2007; Fava, Valentina ... Stefano Maggi, Storia dei trasporti in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna (2005), 327 pp., [euro]22.00. (History of transport in Italy.) In this well written and very useful book, Stefano Maggi outlines the development of the Italian transport system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...
Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
Mar 01, 2007; Whitelegg, Drew ... Alistair Gordon, Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Metropolitan, New York (2004), 305 + xi pp., $27.50; Mark Blacklock, Recapturing the Dream: A Design History of New York's JFK Airport, Mark Blacklock, London (2005), 160 pp., £20.00. Airports ...
Konzentration und Krise der deutschen Schiffahrt. Maritime Wirtschaft und Politik im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus
Mar 01, 2007; Dienel, Hans-Liudger ... Hartmut Rübner, Konzentration und Krise der deutschen Schiffahrt. Maritime Wirtschaft und Politik im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus, Deutsche Maritime Studien. Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Schifffahrtsmuseums Bremerhaven I, Hauschild, Bremen (2005), 524 pp., ...
Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur 1850-1950
Mar 01, 2007; Slack, Brian ... Pierre Camu, Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur 1850-1950, Cahiers du Québec, Collection Géographie, Hurtubise, Montréal (2004), 624 pp., $69.95. This is a very large work, the second in a projected three-volume history of shipping on the St Lawrence-Great Lakes ...
Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel before the Turnpikes
Mar 01, 2007; Timmins, Geoff ... Dorian Gerhold, Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel before the Turnpikes, Phillimore, Chichester (2005), 287 pp., £19.99. This book is concerned with the provision of public road transport services in England between the mid-seventeenth century, when a stagecoach network was ...
The Dangers of Bus Re-regulation
Mar 01, 2007; Mulley, Corinne ... John Hibbs, The Dangers of Bus Re-regulation, Institute of Economic Affairs, London (2005), 117 pp., £10.00. This monograph is essentially in two parts. The first, and longer, one is authored by John Hibbs and considers the question posed in the title of the book. The second part ...