Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century Book

	List of illustrations
	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
1	The history of railways	1
2	Railways and the Italian state in the nineteenth century	12
I	Introduction	12
II	Railway regimes in continental Europe, Great Britain and the United States	13
III	Railways at war	18
IV	Italy's Railway Acts	22
V	Conclusions	63
3	Railway building in Italy	67
I	Introduction	67
II	Railways in Italy and Europe	68
III	Economic unification	79
IV	Railway building before the 1865 Railway Act	98
V	Railway building after the 1865 Railway Act	105
VI	Railway building after the 1879 and 1885 Railway Acts	111
VII	Conclusions	113
4	Railway traffic	116
I	Introduction	116
II	Railway rates	117
III	The development of railway traffic in Italy	122
IV	International lines	125
V	The role of ports	129
VI	Railway traffic between northern and southern Italy	136
VII	The openness of the northern Italian railway network	142
VIII	Railways and traditional inland transport in northern Italy	147
IX	Railways and coastal shipping	150
X	The economic effects of railways	152
XI	Conclusions	155
5	Conclusions	157
	Bibliography	165
	Index	177