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Part I. Introduction: 1. Ideology, technology and economic policy; PartII. The Construction of the New European Infrastructure c. 1830-1914: 2.Infrastructure development and rights of way in the early nineteenth century;3. Local supply networks, private concessions and municipalisation; 4.Railways and telegraph: economic growth and national unification; 5.Electricity supply, tramways and new regulatory regimes c. 1870-1914; PartIII. Nations and Networks 1914-45: 6. Infrastructure development from thenineteenth to the twentieth century: an overall perspective; 7. Thedevelopment of telecommunications; 8. Network integration in electricitysupply: successes and failures; 9. Railway finances and road-railcompetition; Part IV. State Enterprise 1945-90: 10. The new state, economicorganisation and planning; 11. Coal, oil and security; 12. Airline regulationand the transport revolution; 13. Telecommunications: from calm to storm; 14.Economic policy, financial accountability and productivity growth; Part V.Conclusions: 15. The road to privatisation and de-regulation?