Artigo Revisado por pares

The Kansas City Southern Railway and the Dutch Connection

1987; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3115812

ISSN

2044-768X

Autores

Augustus J. Veenendaal,

Tópico(s)

European Political History Analysis

Resumo

While the fact of Dutch capitalist involvement in building and operating the American railroad network in the nineteenth century is relatively well known, the ways in which the Amsterdam capital market was tapped by American railroad companies or their representatives have remained relatively obscure. In this article, Dr. Veenendaal, using hitherto unknown archival material, explains how the promoter of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad (now the Kansas City Southern), Arthur E. Stilwell, set out to procure the millions he needed to realize his dream, a direct railroad from the Midwest to the Gulf.

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