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Turnpike Trusts, Infrastructure Investment, and the Road Transportation Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

DAN BOGART
DAN BOGART
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 540 - 543
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© 2005 The Economic History Association

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Footnotes

This dissertation was completed under the direction of Jean-Laurent Rosenthal in the Department of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles.

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