The Importance of Being Central

Marta Felis-Rota

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2014, vol. 47, issue 4, 199-209

Abstract: The density of the railway network increased in all European states during the period of 1850-1920, but not with the same pattern. Historical data reveal that countries located at the physical extremities of the European continent took much longer to adopt the railway (and thus integrate into an increasingly globalized Europe) than those in the center of the continent. The discussion focuses around the self-constructed variable kilometers of railway line per thousand square kilometers of territory, as an indicator of railway density given the geographical coverage of the railway at every point in time. I run year-by-year multivariate regressions in order to test the relevance of a central location within the continent, considering distance to main markets in London, Paris, and Brussels. Furthermore, I also test the relevance of a country being landlocked.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2014.955233

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