caa a22 4500 386355649 CHVBK 20180307111851.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022216X00018502 doi S0022216X00018502 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022216X00018502 Regalsky Andres M. Andrés Regalsky is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina, and member of CONICET. Foreign Capital, Local Interests and Railway Development in Argentina: French Investments in Railways, 1900-1914 [Elektronische Daten] [Andres M. Regalsky] Between 1900 and 1914, Argentina experienced the period of greatest growth of its railway network (see Fig. 1). During this time its total length was increased by about 12,000 miles, thus improving on the increase achieved during the railway boom of the 1880s. As before, the new peak was associated with a massive inflow of foreign capital which reached record levels: about 2,000 million gold pesos, against 800 millions during the 1880s. Furthermore, the new railway constructions were mainly made after 1907 and located in the pampas (see Tables 1 and 2). This rapid growth has been explained by many authors mainly as a global consequence of the so-called Mitre law (national law 5315), sanctioned in 1907, which standardised railway legislation in a way that favoured foreign investors, giving rise to an investment boom, especially among the British groups settled in the pampas.1 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989-10), 425-452 0022-216X 21:3<425 1989 21 LAS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00018502 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00018502 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Regalsky Andres M. Andrés Regalsky is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina, and member of CONICET NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989-10), 425-452 0022-216X 21:3<425 1989 21 LAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge