Review article. 'Trains of thought': steam railway capitalism and the law in 19th-century England.

Focuses on the issue of dialectical exchange between the world's first steam railway companies and the body of law and lawyering in the book 'Law and English Railway Capitalism,' by Rande Kostal. Legal aftermath of the collapse of the railway mania; Role of lawyers and the legal profession in railw...

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Published in:Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 19; no. 1
Main Author: Freeman, M
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Spring99
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