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Company, State, and Region: Three Approaches to Railroad History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Albert Churella
Albert Churella*
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Southern Polytechnic State University
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 581 - 591
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2006. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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