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Limited Revolution: The Impact of the Anatolian Railway on Turkish Transportation and the Provisioning of Istanbul, 1890–1908

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Developmental investment abroad was an integral part of the industrialized nations' foreign policies in the decades before World War I. A notable case was the German Empire's investment in the Anatolian Railway. Inspired by the astounding success of North American railroad development in settling vast untilled areas and creating great quantities of cheap food grains, the Germans built a railroad into the thinly populated central plain of Turkey. But the hoped-for revolution was limited by social and political factors that overrode the purely economic, as Professor Quataert demonstrates in a study with broad implications for present-day development programs in third-world countries.

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  • Quataert, Donald, 1977. "Limited Revolution: The Impact of the Anatolian Railway on Turkish Transportation and the Provisioning of Istanbul, 1890–1908," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(2), pages 139-160, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:51:y:1977:i:02:p:139-160_03
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    1. Avni Önder Hanedar & Sezgin Uysal, 2020. "Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(3), pages 195-215, September.
    2. Şevket Pamuk & Jeffrey G. Williamson, 2011. "Ottoman de‐industrialization, 1800–1913: assessing the magnitude, impact, and response," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 64(s1), pages 159-184, February.

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