Private Hustlers and Public Traitors

James Fowler ()
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James Fowler: University of Essex

Chapter Chapter 3 in Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians, 2023, pp 51-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores in detail how the procedural, pragmatic and most importantly, moral, legitimacy of the unification of London’s transport system was severely damaged in the years 1900–1915. The agglomeration of power over the capital’s transport was always likely to arouse concern if not hostility. However, the personal conduct and personalities of key figures involved in realising the potential centralisation of control over London’s transport were extremely problematic on a moral and personal level. Some of the objections were irrational and xenophobic. Others were the understandable results of the dishonest way in which some important personalities had behaved. All this opposition had to be managed and overcome, a process begun in 1906 but not really complete until after the First World War.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39296-2_3

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