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Reviewed by:
  • Railroads and The Character of America. 1820–1887 by James A. Ward
  • Greg Thompson
James A. Ward. Railroads and The Character of America. 1820–1887. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 200 pp. Illus.
Greg Thompson
Hagley Museum and Library
Institution of Transport Studies
University of California, Irvine

Note

1. George Roger Taylor’s meticulously researched The Transportation Revolution 1815–1860 (New York and Toronto, 1951) remains the most authoritative analysis of the subject addressed by Ward, but also illuminating are: George Rogers Taylor and Irene B. Neu, The American Railroad Network, 1861–1890 (Cambridge, Mass., 1956); Thomas C. Cohran, Railroad Leaders, 1845–1890: The Business Mind in Action (Cambridge, Mass., 1953); Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920 (Cambridge, Mass., 1982); and Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass., 1977).

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