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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(3):743-744; doi:10.1093/es/khm066
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Charles Loft. Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains

Charles Loft. Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains. British Politics and Society. London and New York: Routlege, 2006. xii + 214 pp. ISBN 0-714-65338-1, $125.00 (cloth)

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"This book," writes Charles Loft, "is first and foremost about railway closures ... [It] is not a business history, or an economic study" (p.2). What, then, does it have to offer to readers of Enterprise & Society, who may not expect much of a book which is part of a series on "British Politics and Society"? The simple answer is that it provides much more than the author's modest opening remarks. By analyzing the political and popular opposition . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Terry Gourvish

London School of Economics & Political Science


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