The Drift

Hodgkins, John

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“…Watkin, therefore, illustrates how powerful local industrialists were able to use the political system to facilitate the expansion of the railway network. 51 Network features remained constant in terms of centrality and density while aristocrats became more decisively the dominant group by 1895. There were more aristocratic directors, but politicians and total elite had diminished and so too had industrialists (table 1).…”

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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†

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Toms

2020

The Economic History Review

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This article considers how international economic expansion impacts on the composition of elite groups on boards of companies. We examine, why, at the height of the British Empire, boards of national, imperial, and international railway companies, financed from London, were dominated by elites drawn differentially from the aristocracy, the military, finance, and politics. To investigate the reasons for these differences, we conduct a social network analysis of railway company boards in three countries during the second half of the nineteenth century. Results reveal that aristocratic directors were dominant in Britain, military directors in India, and financier directors in Argentina, suggesting that their influence drew on local knowledge, resource access, and network connections. They did not serve on boards for merely ornamental purposes.

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Section: Britainmentioning

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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†

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Toms

2020

The Economic History Review

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The Man on the Tor: Adapting The Hound of the Baskervilles

Poore

2017

Sherlock Holmes From Screen to Stage

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Out of the Literary Comfort Zone: Adaptation, Embodiment, and Assimilation

Raengo

2014

Teaching Adaptations

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Out of the Literary Comfort Zone: Adaptation, Embodiment, and Assimilation* 'You'll hit with him! You'll run with him! You'll slide with him!' The Jackie Robinson Story, poster tagline 'You know the flesh is hers; and given the way she inhabits it in the early scenes, you can't help wondering whether she also might own the glare, the scowl, the rolling gait, and the purposeful mumble' Stuart Klawans, The Nation This essay pursues a deliberately unusual approach to teaching adaptation. It is motivated by an investment in understanding its stakes when the very idea of adaptation comes under pressure, that is, when its very occurrence appears to be effaced. Focusing on these situations offers the possibility for adaptation studies to illuminate something that the very process of adaptation might be elaborating vis-àvi its larger cultural and social context, for example, in the case studies under consideration here, the process of racial assimilation. I came to this conclusion studying the reception of two films centered on African-American characters: rather than referring back to the film's literary sources, film commentators would discuss

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The Drift

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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†

Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†

The Man on the Tor: Adapting The Hound of the Baskervilles

Out of the Literary Comfort Zone: Adaptation, Embodiment, and Assimilation

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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900†

Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900†

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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†

Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†